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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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Book of Hours, use of Rome : [manuscript]

Manuscripts

ff. 1-211v. [Book of Hours]: ff. 1-17v: Calendar in red and black; ff. 17v-18v: Verses of St. Bernard; ff. 19-103: [f. 19, blank], Hours of the Virgin, use of Rome, ends f. 103, Finit officium beate marie virginis secundum consuetudinem Romane curie. Deo Gratias. Amen; ff. 103v-106v: Mass of the Virgin; ff. 107-108v: Prayer and suffrage of Roch; ff. 109-137 [f. 109, blank]: Penitential psalms and litany; ff. 137v-139v: Two indulgences; ff. 140-198v: [f. 140, blank], Office of the Dead, use of Rome; ff. 198v-200v: Prayer to Sebastian and second copy of the verses of St. Bernard; ff. 201-207: [f. 201, blank], Short hours of the Cross; ff. 207-211v: Short hours of the Holy Spirit.

mssHM 1135

Book of Hours, use of Rome : [manuscript]

Manuscripts

Part I. ff. 1-162 [Book of Hours]: f. 1r-v: Table of contents; ff. 2-10: Calendar with the months following one another directly; ff. 10v-17v: Prayers for the beginning of the day, for the king, other prayers, and pericope from John; ff. 18-22v: Short hours of the Cross; ff. 23-27v: Short hours of the Holy Spirit; ff. 28-34: Short hours of the Conception; ff. 34v-92v: Incipit officium beate marie virginis secundum consuetudinem romane curie; ff. 93-98: Mass of the Virgin; ff. 98-111: Penitential psalms and litany; f. 111v: Office of the Dead, now missing; ff. 140-151: Gradual psalms; ff. 151v-157v: Prayers, readings and hymns for the end of the day; ff. 158-162: Suffrages of John the Baptist, Christopher, Jerome, Mary Magdalene, Apollonia, Catherine of Alexandria, Agatha, Elizabeth, Roch, Margaret, Francis, Anthony of Padua. f. 162v, blank. Part II. 17 miniatures of Flemish origin.

mssHM 1162

Book of Hours, use of Rome : [manuscript]

Manuscripts

ff. 1-238 v [Book of Hours]: ff. 2-13v: Calendar in red and black; ff. 14-102 [f. 14, blank]: Office of the Virgin, use of Rome; ff. 102v-104v, ruled, but blank; ff. 105-166v: [f. 105, blank], Office of the Dead, use of Rome; ff. 148v-166v: liturgical variations for All Souls and for a funeral; f. 167, ruled, but blank; f. 167v: Short Hours of the Cross (remainder misbound and is on ff. 232-236v); ff. 168-198 [f. 168, blank]: Long Hours of the Passion; f. 198v, ruled, but blank; ff. 199-229: [f. 199, blank], Penitential psalms and litany; ff. 229v-231v: ruled, but blank; ff. 232-236v: Short Hours of the Cross, misbound; [ff. 237-238v, ruled but blank].

mssHM 1132

Book of Hours, use of Rome : [manuscript]

Manuscripts

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]

mssHM 1124

Book of Hours, use of Rome : [manuscript]

Manuscripts

ff. 1-205v [Book of Hours]: ff. 1-12v: Calendar in French; f. 13r-v, ruled as for a calendar, but blank; ff. 14-22: [f. 14, blank], Short hours of the Cross; f. 22v, ruled, but blank; ff. 23-29v: [f. 23, blank], Short hours of the Holy Spirit; f. 30r-v, ruled, but blank; ff. 31-102: [f. 31, blank], Hours of the Virgin, use of Rome; f. 102v, ruled, but blank; ff. 103-121: [f. 103, blank], Penitential psalms and litany; f. 121v, ruled, but blank; ff. 122-166: Office of the Dead, use of Rome; f. 166v, ruled, but blank; ff. 167-190: Obsecro te, O Intemerata and other prayers; ff. 190v-200: Suffrages of the Trinity, Peter and Paul, Sebastian, Anthony abbot, Adrianus, Piatus, Mary Magdalene, Julianus, Catherine of Alexandria, Barbara, Holy Spirit, Roch; ff. 200-204v: Prayers especially for the Eucharist. f. 205r-v, blank.

mssHM 1149

Book of Hours, use of Rome : [manuscript]

Manuscripts

ff. 1-178v [Book of Hours]: ff. 1-12v: full calendar in French; ff. 13-24: pericopes of the Gospels with the Obsecro te and the O Intemerata [f. 24v, blank]; ff. 25-95v: Office of the Virgin, use of Rome with changed office for Advent; ff. 96-116v: penitential psalms and litany; ff. 117-120: Short Hours of the Cross; ff. 120v-123v: Short Hours of the Holy Spirit; ff. 124-167v: Office of the Dead; ff. 167v-172: prayers, many specifying the occasion with a rubric in French; ff. 172v-173: [added in a later cursive hand] Stabat mater dolorosa. [ff. 173v-178v, blank].

mssHM 1123

Book of Hours, use of Rome : [manuscript]

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