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Offices for the week, compiled by Andrea Matteo Acquaviva : [manuscript]

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ff. 1-425 (+ 145 bis); ff. 425v-426v, blank. [Andrea Matteo Acquaviva, compiler]. [Offices for the week]. Latin. ff. 1-3v, Indulgence of Leo X granted in 1518 for saying these offices; f. 4r-v, blank; ff. 5-11v, Computistic notes and calendar; ff. 12-13, Computistic material; f. 13v, blank; ff. 14-15, Rubrics for a changed office during certain liturgical seasons; ff. 15v-16v, blank; ff. 18-221v, Offices for Sundays through the liturgical year beginning with Advent; f. 222r-v, blank; ff. 223-244, Office of the Dead; f. 244v-245, blank; ff. 245v-272v, Officium de angelis et dicitur feria tercia; ff. 273-274, blank; ff. 274v-303, Officium pro peccatis et dicitur feria quarta; ff. 303v-304, blank; ff. 304v-332, Officium sancti spiritus et feria quinta dicitur; f. 332v, blank; ff. 333-361: Offitium de passione domini et dicitur feria sexta; ff. 361v-362, blank; ff. 362v-392, Officium de septem festivitatibus beate virginis quod dicitur in die sabbati. Dicitur etiam quando infra annum contingunt festivitates ipsius beate virginis et per totam octavam ipsarum festivitatum; ff. 393-395v: Dedication and indulgence as in art. 1, here in the same hand as the main body of the text; f. 395v, Prayer; ff. 396-405v, antiphons and prayers for the temporale from Ash Wednesday to the Rogation Saturday after the feast of Andrew; ff. 406-421v, antiphons and prayers for the sanctorale from Circumcision to Silvester; ff. 421v-424, antiphons and prayers for the common of saints, from one apostle to a widow; ff. 424v-425, Salve Regina.
Type
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Date
[1519]
Call number
mssHM 1046
Creator
Catholic Church(Opens in new tab)
Provenance
Written in 1519 in southern Italy, perhaps Naples, for Andrea Matteo III Acquaviva d'Aragona (1458-1529), Duke of Atri, whose arms are in the lower margin of f. 18, as in Rietstap, vol. 1, pl. 8, except that the second and third quarter in the manuscript bear, impaled, or a lion rampant azure, and argent a lion rampant gules. Belonged to the Duke de Cassano Serra of Naples, whose collection was acquired ca. 1820 by George John Spencer, 2nd Earl Spencer (1758-1834). Lord Spencer disposed of unwanted items at various sales; this manuscript in his sale, Sotheby's, 5 February 1828, lot 196 to Roth. In the library of Albert Edmund Parker, 3rd Earl of Morley (1843-1905); his sale, Sotheby's, 27 June 1898, lot 934 to Quaritch. Robert Hoe collection: Cat. (1909) pp. 149-51; his sale, Anderson, New York, 1912, pt. IV, n. 2368 with plate of f. 17v to G. D. Smith. Acquired by Henry E. Huntington in 1918.
Restrictions
RESTRICTED. Available with curatorial approval. Requires extended retrieval and delivery time.
Dimensions
189 x 272 mm
Associated people
Acquaviva, Andrea Matteo, (1458-1529,)
Cassano, Luigi Cassano Serra, (1747-1825,)
Spencer, George John Spencer, (1758-1834,)
Morley, Albert Edmund Parker, (1843-1905,)
Hoe, Robert, (1839-1909,)
Associated organization
Henry E. Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens.
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