summary
Lotti-Canigani Hours. Book of Hours
leaf dimensions : height (mm)
125
leaf dimensions : width (mm)
88
justification : height (mm)
64
justification : width (mm)
45
note (deco)
8 large white-vine illuminated initials, with marginal extensions (fols. 28v, 44r, 50v, 57r, 62v, 68v, 79r and 85v); five large historiated initials, the first with a full floral border, others with three-quarter floral borders, showing the Virgin and Child, three-quarter length (fol. 13r, Matins, text in gold capitals on a blue panel), a skeleton, head and shoulders (fol. 113r, Office of the Dead), David with his psaltery (fol. 173r, Penitential Psalms), Christ as the Man of Sorrows, half-length (fol. 203r, Hours of the Passion) and a cross on a hilltop (fol. 237r, Hours of the Cross).Small initials in alternating red and blue, some 4-line initials in burnished gold on coloured panels with tracery in white and yellow.
binding
Old (probably eighteenth-century) leather over pasteboards, paper endleaves, rebacked; in a fawn cloth case.
origPlace : proposed origin
Florence
note (history)
The manuscript may once have had full-page miniatures on separate sheets, which would have been inserted opposite fols. 13r, 113r, 173r, 203r and 237r, with complementary subjects such as the Annunciation,a funeral service, David and Goliath, perhaps the Agony in the Garden, and the crucifixion. The arms on fol. 13r are those of Lotti, of Florence (argent, 3 fasces sable, cf.Rolland 1926, p. 166), and Canigiani, of Florence (argent, a crescent azure, in chief a label gules, cf. Rietstap 1884, I, p. 365).
provenance
Franciscus Aloysius Phillipus, with his eighteenth-century booklabel (Gelli 1908, p. 168); C. L. Ricketts, bought in November 1924 from Lathrop Harper; acquired by the Lilly Library with the Ricketts Collection in 1961.
note (temp)
http://ds.lib.berkeley.edu/Ricketts144_40
