Accession number
MS M.1083
Object title
Book of hours (MS M.1083).
Created
Italy, possibly Florence, ca. 1470-1489.
Binding
19th-century brown gilt calf.
Credit line
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Sidney G. Dillon, Oct. 10, 1991.
Description
168 leaves (1 column, 15 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 99 x 70 mm
Provenance
Given by William V. Griffin or Charles Scribner to Mrs. Milton S. Dillon of Far Hills, New Jersey (née Vera Maud Cusman; married Milton S. Dillon, who died in 1939; married Catesby L. Jones in 1946; later married Eric F. Kerry; died June 1, 1991); given by Mrs. Dillon to Mr. and Mrs. Sidney G. Dillon in early 1991.
Notes
Ms. book of hours for the use of Rome; written and illuminated in Italy, possibly Florence, ca. 1470-1489.
Decoration: 12 historiated initials, 7 inhabited initials, and 4 inhabited border roundels.
Artist: according to Tilly de la Mare, in a conversation with W. Voelkle, 9 December 1992, possibly Antonio di Niccolò di Lorenzo.
Decoration: 12 historiated initials, 7 inhabited initials, and 4 inhabited border roundels.
Artist: according to Tilly de la Mare, in a conversation with W. Voelkle, 9 December 1992, possibly Antonio di Niccolò di Lorenzo.
Contents
fols. 1r-12v: Calendar -- fols. 13r-68v: Hours of the Virgin (68v blank) -- fols. 69r-86v: Penitential Psalms and Litany -- fols. 87r-119v: Office of the Dead -- fols. 120r-122v: Short Hours of the Cross -- fols. 123r-133v: Gradual Psalms -- fols. 133v-135r: Hymn -- fols. 135v-139v: Hours of the Holy Spirit -- fols. 140r-140v: Blank -- fols. 141r-168v: Hours of the Passion (149r, 153r, 155v, 158r, 160v, 163r, and 166r blank).
Script
textura
Language
Latin
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