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Book of Hours, use of Rome : [manuscript]

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Description
ff. 1-209v; [Book of Hours]: ff. 1-12v: Full calendar; ff. 13-25v: Pericopes of the Gospels and Passion according to John; ff. 26-34v: Obsecro te, O Intemerata and other prayers to the Virgin; ff. 35-79: Hours of the Virgin, use of Rome; f. 79v ruled, but blank, except for rubric to the Hours of the Cross; ff. 80-83v: Short hours of the Cross; ff. 84-87: Short hours of the Holy Spirit; f. 87v, ruled, but blank; ff. 88-103v: Penitential psalms and litany; ff. 104-135: Office of the Dead, use of Rome; ff. 135v-144: Suffrages of Michael, John the Baptist, John the Evangelist, Peter and Paul, Christopher, George, Adrian, Sebastian, James the Greater, Bernard, Catherine of Alexandria, Mary Magdalene, Martha, Apollonia, Barbara; ff. 144v-155: Prayers, including one in French; ff. 155v-186v: Psalter of St. Gregory; ff. 187-194v: Psalter of St. Augustine; ff. 195-207v: Psalter of St. Jerome. ff. 208-209v, blank.
Type
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Date
[between 1450 and 1499]
Call number
mssHM 1143
Creator
Catholic Church(Opens in new tab)
Provenance
The first owner appears in a miniature on f. 32 kneeling before the Virgin; his arms are in the borders of f. 35, barry of six or and sable. Belonged to William Bragge; his sale, Sotheby's, 7 June 1876, lot 476 to B. F. Stevens. Belonged to Robert Hoe, Grolier Club (1892) n. 19; Bierstadt (1895) p. 24 with a plate of f. 32; Cat. (1909) pp. 56-57; his sale, Anderson, New York, 1912, pt. IV, n. 2338 to G. D. Smith. Precise source and date of acquisition by Henry E. Huntington unknown.
Restrictions
RESTRICTED. Available with curatorial approval. Requires extended retrieval and delivery time.
Dimensions
136 x 195 mm
Associated people
Master of the Vienna Mamerot, (active 1468-1475,)
Bragge, William, (1823-1884,)
Hoe, Robert, (1839-1909,)
Bedford, Francis, (1799-1883,)
Associated organization
Henry E. Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens.
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