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Horae: ad usum Romanum (Rome).

Accession number
PML 19008
Object title

Horae: ad usum Romanum (Rome).

Published

Naples : Mathias Moravus, 10 Nov. 1478.

Description

(8vo)

Notes
Checklist: "BH (O)36."
Library's copy on vellum, illuminated.
Binding
16th-17th-century (?) red morocco, rebacked, possibly bound in Italy.
Variant title
Checklist title: Officium beatae Mariae virginis
Provenance
Formerly owned by Pietro di Guevara, Grand Seneschal to Ferdinand I, King of Naples, who confiscated Guevara's property after he was implicated in a plot against the king, the "congiura dei baroni." Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from Sydney Cockerell in 1908.
Classification
Century
Department