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Book of hours (MS W.29).

Accession number
MS W.29
Object title
Book of hours (MS W.29).
Created
Northern Italy, perhaps Ferrara, ca. 1460-1475.
Credit line
Bequest; Julia Parker Wightman; 1994.
Description
267 leaves (1 column, 11 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 94 x 65 mm.
Provenance
Rowland Gerson Hazard (bookplate on front pastedown); Walter Schatzki, New York; purchased by Julia Parker Wightman from Schatzki in 1946; JPW 2272; Julia Parker Wightman Bequest in 1994.
Notes
Ms. book of hours, use of Rome (Hours of the Virgin); written and illuminated in northern Italy, perhaps Ferrara, between 1460 and 1475.
Texts: fols. 1-12 - Calendar; fol. 13 blank; fols. 14-136v - Hours of the Virgin; fol. 137 blank; fols. 138-220 - Office of the Dead; fols. 220v-227 - Office of the Passion; fols. 228-229 ruled but blank; fol. 230-250 - Penitential Psalms; fols. 250-266v - Litany; fols. 267-269 ruled but blank.
Decoration: 3 historiated initals, 2 historiated border vignettes, 4 full-page illuminated borders, 8 large illuminated initials.
Binding: 17th-century dark brown calf, gold tooled, 2 clasps, gilt and gauffered edges, in marbled paper box, brown morocco spine, labeled: Latin Prayer Book, MS circa 1500, signed JPW 1946.
Script
textura.
Language
Latin
Century
Classification