summary
Hours of Giovanni Pietro Visconti. Book of Hours
leaf dimensions : height (mm)
140
leaf dimensions : width (mm)
43
justification : height (mm)
100
justification : width (mm)
40
note (deco)
Two 5-line historiated initials, showing Saint Ambrose (fol. 63r) and a skull (fol. 164r); elaborate double-page opening on fols. 12v–13r with, on the left, a miniature of the Nativity (98 mm. by 54 mm.) in a landscape above a classical tablet “Quem virgo concepit, virgo peperit, virgo post partum quem genuit adoravit” (part of the responses for the feast of the Purification) and, on the right, the opening of the text with full border including angels and the Coronation of the Virgin in a mandorla; very worn and faded.Rubrics in pale red; 2-line initials throughout in alternating red and green.
binding
Bound in eighteenth-century Italian sheep gilt, parchment endleaves, repaired; in a green cloth case.
origPlace : proposed origin
Milan
note (history)
Jonathan Alexander attributes the painter, the same as Oxford, Keble College, MS 63, made for Antonio Landriani, treasurer of Lodovico il Moro, duke of Milan (Parkes 1979, pp. 281–88). He continued working in Milan after its occupation by Louis XII of France in 1499, and he also illuminated a Book of Hours for Gian Giacomo Trivulzio, regent for the French (Mulas 1999).
provenance
Written in 1505 for Giovanni Pietro Visconti (1478-1515), provost of Milan cathedral (see below); Oliver Rogers Barrett (1873-1950), Chicago attorney, who gave it to C. L. Ricketts in 1918; acquired by the Lilly Library with the Ricketts Collection in 1961.
note (temp)
http://ds.lib.berkeley.edu/Ricketts148_40
