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Book of Hours, use of Rome : [manuscript]

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Description
ff. 1-189v [Book of Hours]: ff. 1-12v: full calendar; ff. 13-20: Mass of the Virgin, with the prayers, Obsecro te and O Intemerata, and a suffrage of Roch [f. 20v blank]; ff. 21-36: pericopes of the Gospels, and Passion according to John; ff. 36-99v: Hours of the Virgin "secundum usum romane curie"; ff. 99v-105: Hours of the Conception [f. 105v, blank]; ff. 106-109v: Short hours of the Cross; ff. 109v-118: prayer and the Athanasian Creed; ff. 118-122v: Short hours of the Holy Spirit; ff. 122v-139v: penitential psalms and litany; ff. 139v-171: Office of the Dead, use of Rome; ff. 171-188v: prayers and suffrages of Michael, of one's guardian angel, all angels, Paul, John, Andrew, James, Lawrence, Vincent, Sebastian, Stephen, George, Christopher (in the prayer of this suffrage, f. 179, feminine forms have been added above the masculine, possibly in the hand of the scribe), Ambrose, Gregory, Jerome, Augustine, Francis, Anthony of Padua, Dominic, Benedict, many martyrs, Catherine, Lucia, Barbara, Agatha, Apollonia, Mary Magdalene, Ursula and the 11,000 virgins, Genevieve, Anne. Explicit on f. 188v: Horas presentes fecit facere litteratissimus vir magister franciscus de mello pro sorore sua domina maria Manuel. [f. 189r-v, blank]
Type
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Date
[between 1500 and 1515]
Call number
mssHM 1124
Creator
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Provenance
Written at the order of Franciscus de Mello for his sister, Maria Manuel, as stated in the colophon on f. 188v, where there is also a coat of arms: per pale: 1, gules two bars or and six roundels argent, 2, 2 and 2; 2, gules a lion rampant or; the dexter side is similar to the impaled shield for Mello e Castro in Rietstap, vol. 4, pl. 183, which is gules a double traverse cross and six roundels argent, 2, 2, and 2. Belonged to William Horatio Crawford of Lakelands, Cork; his sale, Sotheby's, 12 March 1891, lot 1609 to Quaritch; acquired at that time by Robert Hoe: Grolier Club (1892) n. 99 (proof sheet for that catalogue entry remaining with the manuscript); Cat. 1909 pp. 90-92; his sale, Anderson, New York, 1912, pt. IV, n. 2344 with plate of f. 65v, to G. D. Smith. Source and date of acquisition by Henry E. Huntington unknown.
Restrictions
RESTRICTED. Available with curatorial approval. Requires extended retrieval and delivery time.
Dimensions
133 x 200 mm
Associated people
Master of Morgan 85, (active 1490-1520,)
Dürer, Albrecht, (1471-1528.)
Crawford, William Horatio, (1815?-1888,)
Hoe, Robert, (1839-1909,)
Associated organization
Henry E. Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens.
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