summary
Book of Hours or Psalter
leaf dimensions : height (mm)
120
leaf dimensions : width (mm)
82
justification : height (mm)
65
justification : width (mm)
43
condition
FragmentaireIncomplete. Recto rather rubbed.
note (deco)
One heading in gold; one-line versal initials in alternating blue and gold.
origPlace : proposed origin
Rome
note (history)
The present leaf is from a manuscript made in Rome in the early 1480s, probably while Sanvito was still working for Cardinal Gonzaga, who might have been its first owner. It was evidently one of the manuscripts broken up by Otto Ege, who gave two leaves to the calligrapher James Hayes in 1948-49. Ege’s source for it is not yet known, except that he assumed it was French. Twenty other leaves from the manuscript in eight collections are listed by de la Mare and Nuvoloni, p. 276, including leaves in the University of Colorado in Boulder, the School of Theology Library at Boston University, and Sweet Briar College in Virginia.
provenance
Apparently Otto F. Ege (1888-1951); Ruth E. Adomeit (1910-1996), bequeathed by her to the Lilly Library.
note (temp)
http://ds.lib.berkeley.edu/Adomeit48_40
