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Book of Hours, use of Rome : [manuscript]

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Description: ff. 1-166v: [Book of Hours]: ff. 1-12v: Calendar; ff. 13-85: Incipit offitium beate et gloriose virginis marie secundum consuetudinem romane curie; ff. 85v-86v, blank; ff. 87-110: Penitential psalms and litany; ff. 110v-115: Short hours of the Cross; ff. 115v-116v, blank; ff. 117-166v: Office of the Dead, use of Rome.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: [between 1450 and 1499]
Call number: mssHM 25779
Creator: Catholic Church(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: On the front pastedown the engraved heraldic bookplate of C. W. Loscombe; Sotheby's, 16 December 1946, lot 547 to the London booksellers McLeish and Sons; sold by them to Dawson's Book Shop in Los Angeles with correspondence to that effect dated November 1947 now in Huntington files; sold by Dawson's to Mary W. T. Dickinson by that date. Received by the Huntington Library in April 1953 as a bequest from Mary Dickinson (d. September 1952).
Restrictions: RESTRICTED. Available with curatorial approval. Requires extended retrieval and delivery time.
Dimensions: 70 x 98 mm
Associated people: Dickinson, Mary W. T.,
Associated organization: Henry E. Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens.
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