summary
Book of Hours, use of Rome
note (text)
F. 13-85= Off. B. M. V.; F. 117-166v°= Off. Defunct.; (CCLL)
leaf dimensions : height (mm)
98
leaf dimensions : width (mm)
70
justification : height (mm)
55
justification : width (mm)
37
note (deco)
Historiated initials, ff. 13, 87, 110v and 117.
binding
Bound, s. XVII, in Italian calf over wooden boards with gilt tooling of a pomegranate design; gilt edges.
origDate : proposed date
From : 1450 (CCLL) To : 1500 (CCLL)
provenance
Written possibly in Florence, given the style of the illuminations. On the front pastedown the engraved heraldic bookplate of C. W. Loscombe; Sotheby's, 16 December 1946, lot 547 to the London booksellers McLeish and Sons; sold by them to Dawson's Book Shop in Los Angeles with correspondence to that effect dated November 1947 now in Huntington files; sold by Dawson's to Mary W. T. Dickinson by that date. Received by the Huntington Library in April 1953 as a bequest from Mary Dickinson (d. September 1952).
