MINIATURE BOOK OF HOURS, use of Rome, in Latin, illuminated manuscript on vellum [northern Italy, second half 15th century
MINIATURE BOOK OF HOURS, use of Rome, in Latin, illuminated manuscript on vellum [northern Italy, second half 15th century] A miniature Italian Book of Hours, a portable instrument of private devotion: the original owner may have opted to forgo the calendar and Office of the Dead customarily present in a Book of Hours, perhaps tailoring the manuscript to their own devotional needs. 80 x 52mm. v + 112 + i, 15 lines, ruled space: 59 x 33mm, one historiated initial on f.77, two illuminated initials (incomplete). Modern metal binding, engraved with the initials ‘C.F.P.’ and ‘G.I.’. Content : Hours of the Virgin ff.1-69 (lacking opening leaf and at least one more leaf after f.47); Mass of the Virgin ff.70v-76; Penitential Psalms ff.77-90; Litany ff.91-102; Hours of the Cross ff. 103-108; Hours of the Holy Spirit ff.108-112. The historiated initial depicting David in prayer suggests the manuscript was illuminated in northern Italy in the mid- to late-15th century.
MINIATURE BOOK OF HOURS, use of Rome, in Latin, illuminated manuscript on vellum [northern Italy, second half 15th century
MINIATURE BOOK OF HOURS, use of Rome, in Latin, illuminated manuscript on vellum [northern Italy, second half 15th century] A miniature Italian Book of Hours, a portable instrument of private devotion: the original owner may have opted to forgo the calendar and Office of the Dead customarily present in a Book of Hours, perhaps tailoring the manuscript to their own devotional needs. 80 x 52mm. v + 112 + i, 15 lines, ruled space: 59 x 33mm, one historiated initial on f.77, two illuminated initials (incomplete). Modern metal binding, engraved with the initials ‘C.F.P.’ and ‘G.I.’. Content : Hours of the Virgin ff.1-69 (lacking opening leaf and at least one more leaf after f.47); Mass of the Virgin ff.70v-76; Penitential Psalms ff.77-90; Litany ff.91-102; Hours of the Cross ff. 103-108; Hours of the Holy Spirit ff.108-112. The historiated initial depicting David in prayer suggests the manuscript was illuminated in northern Italy in the mid- to late-15th century.
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