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Book of Hours, Use of Rome Public Deposited

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Contents
  • Language: Latin. Modern title: Hours of the Virgin. Scribal title: Incipit officium beate Marie virginis Secundum consuetudinem Romane curie. Incipit: Domine labia mea aperies. Explicit: Per eiusdem christum dominum nostrum. Responsa. Amen. Finis. Folio range: 2r-70v ** Language: Latin. Modern title: Office of the Dead. Scribal title: Incipit officium mortuorum. Ad vesperas antiphona. Incipit: Dilexi quoniam exaudiet dominus uocem orationis mee. Explicit: Requiescant in pace. Responsa. Amen. Finis. Folio range: 72r-109v ** Language: Latin. Modern title: Seven penitential psalms and litany. Scribal title: Incipiunt septem psalmi pentitentiales antiphona. Incipit: Domine ne in furore tuo arguas me. Explicit: Expliciunt septem psalmi penitentiales Deo gratias Amen. Folio range: 112r-135v ** Language: Latin. Modern title: Office of the Passion. Scribal title: Incipit officium passionis domini nostri yhesu christi quod composuit dominus iohannes . papa xxii. Incipit: Domine labia mea aperies. Explicit: solatium in mortis mee agonem Responsus Amen. Finis. Deo gratia. Folio range: 136r-141r
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Time Period
  • Second half of the 15th century
Place of Origin
  • Italy
Description
  • A very small northern Italian Book of Hours from the second half of the fifteenth century. The volume has a tipped-in full-page miniature of the annunciation, featuring the Archangel Gabriel at the opening, and smaller inhabited illuminated initials at the opening of each of its sections: the Hours of the Virgin (2r), the Office of the Dead (72r), the Seven Penitential Psalms (112r), and the Office of the Passion (136r).
Call Number
  • 1475 B665
Contributors
  • Records created or enhanced by the Peripheral Manuscript Project’s Description team, led by Dr. Elizabeth K. Hebbard and Dr. Sarah L. Noonan.
Source Identifier
  • sto_001_001
Keywords
  • Historiated initial
  • Miniature
  • Christian
  • Border
  • Italy
  • Illumination
  • Book of Hours
  • Pen-flourished initial
  • Devotion
Title
  • Book of Hours, Use of Rome
Physical Description
  • Physical type: Codex. Support material: Parchment. Extent: 2 (modern paper) + 141 + 2 (modern paper). Collation: 1 + Q1-14 (10). Catchwords: Horizontal catchwords in text ink in the center of the bottom margin. Bound dimensions (in mm): 128 x 87 x 35. Page dimensions (in mm): 122 x 75. Written area (in mm): 78 x 50. Script: Gothic. Script type: Rotunda. Layout: One column, ruled in light ink for one column of sixteen lines. Single vertical bounding lines, ruling does not extend beyond these. Decoration: The volume opens with a tipped-in full-page miniature of the Annunciation. Five- and six-line illuminated, historiated initials open the main contents sections, accompanied by illuminated borders with blue, green, light pink, and yellow flowers, leafwork and one bird (fol. 2r). The border on fol. 2r has space left for a heraldic device that was never added. Two-line initials with alternating blue with red penwork and red with purple penwork throughout. In some sections, capitals alternate in red and blue. Rubrication. Binding: Modern white vellum, gold tooled turn-in. Gilded gauffered edges. Back board coming detached at hinge.
Language
  • Latin
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Source Metadata Identifier
  • sto_001_001
Date Created
  • 15th century
Owning Institution
  • Saint Olaf College Rolvaag Memorial Library Special Collections. Northfield, MN.
Provenance
  • The name "I. Spode Armitage" is written on fol. 141v. This inscription perhaps belongs to Josiah Spode IV, who purchased Armitage Park in Staffordshire, England around 1840. Acquired by St Olaf in 2016.

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