Item Summary

Descriptive Information

Title
[Book of hours : use of Rome]
Call Number
Garrett MS. 62
Identifier
ark:/88435/dc2227n429p
Publisher
[Florence?], [between 1475 and 1500?]
Language
Latin
Date Created
1475-1500
Extent
210 leaves : parchment ; 95 x 63 (55-60 x 36) mm bound to 102 x 75 mm.
Provenance
Possibly owned by the Riario family of Italy, or someone under their patronage. Intermediate ownership unknown. Purchased by Robert Garrett at unknown date. His gift to the Princeton University Library in 1942.
Source Acquisition
Gift ; Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 ; 1942.
References
Medieval & Renaissance manuscripts in the Princeton University Library, volume 1, pages 117-119.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Contents
1. fol. 1r-12v: [Calendar]. In red and black with golden numbers, and Dominical letters.
2. fol. 13r-98v: [Hours of the Virgin : use of Rome]
3. fol. 99r-110r: [Advent hours of the Virgin]
4. fol. 111r-144r: [Seven penitential psalms]. Litany with petitions and collects.
5. fol. 145r-202v: [Office of the dead : use of Rome]
6. fol. 203r-209v: [Prayer to Christ].
7. fol. 210r-211r: [Prayer]. Begins: Aliud oratio deuotissima"
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title devised by cataloger.
Collation: Parchment ; fol. i (paper) + 210 + i (paper) ; foliation skips 61 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 12-17 lines per page ; ruled.
Decoration: Done in the Florentine style of the second half of the 15th century. 3 historiated initials: Virgin Mary adores the Christ child (fol. 13r); David in prayer (fol. 111r); Lazarus raised from the dead (fol. 145r). 3- to 5-line decorated initials on square gold fields with flourishes. 2-line initials with magenta or blue with red flourishes. 1-line red initials with magenta flourished or blue initials with red flourishes.
Binding Note
Later binding. Italy, 19th century. Brown calf over pasteboard. Blind-tooling on covers; gold-tooling on spine. Endbands.

Discovery Information

Subject
Catholic Church—Prayers and devotions—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)—New Jersey—Princeton
historiated initials
decorated initials
Blind tooled bindings
Gold tooled bindings
Headbands

Physical Characteristics

File Count
426

Institutional Information

Collection
Medieval and Renaissance Mediterranean Manuscripts
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/15ab62e3-b369-404d-a8e9-2f22d8e5cfca/manifest