textLang
Latin (LA, LAT)French (FR, FRE)
note (text)
Book of hours, use of Metz, with a calendar, the Hours of the Virgin, the Penitential Psalms and Litany, and the Office of the Dead. The calendar includes Saint Arnulf (11 October) and Saint Clement (23 November), both bishops of Metz, and the opening miniature of the Hours of the Virgin, showing Mary nursing Jesus (f. 13r), is particularly associated with Metz.
leaf dimensions : height (mm)
105
leaf dimensions : width (mm)
71
justification : height (mm)
67
justification : width (mm)
40
note (deco)
4- or 5-line initials and branching foliate borders with ivy leaves; 2- and 3-line initials in color on cusped gold grounds with colored ivy stems forming partial text borders; 1-line initials in gold on pink and blue grounds with white penwork; entries in calendar in red and blue; rubrics in pale red ink
binding
Modern binding in red velvet over pasteboards with metal clasp
origDate : proposed date
late 14th century.
provenance
Formerly owned by Achille Ratti (later Pope Pius XI); given to him by Pietro Larghi, heir of Ambrogio Roveda, 23 Apr. 1913. Sold at auction at Sotheby's, 15 June 1959, lot 150, to Maggs Bros. (London); appears in Maggs cat. 866 (1959), no. 66. Sold at auction at Sotheby's, 11 Dec. 1979, lot 65, to an unidentified owner who held it until 2010. Sold at auction at Sotheby's, 6 Jul. 2010, lot 37
HORAE_1200pxmin (1815 mss)
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Digitization-type
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