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Book of hours (MS M.1052).

Accession number
MS M.1052
Object title
Book of hours (MS M.1052).
Created
Naples, Italy, 1483
Binding
19th-century brown sheepskin with gilt fillets.
Credit line
Purchased on the Acquisitions Fund, in honor of Dr. John Plummer, 1984.
Description
191 leaves (1 column, 14 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 175 x 127 mm
Provenance
Added (?) arms on fol. 13: beneath an ecclesiastical hat sable with 12 tassels sable, or, a fess vert (?), 3 pellets, in chief an eagle displayed with two heads issuant sable, in base 4 rows of triangles gules barwise; Leo S. Olschki, Florence; Herbert Straus; Therese K. Straus.
Notes
Ms. book of hours for the use of Rome (Hours of the Virgin, Office of the Dead); written and illuminated in Naples; dated 1483.
Artists: Giovanni Todeschino (fol. 13); Nardo Rapicano (fols. 176v and 179); and Cristoforo Mayorana (Hours of the Virgin, Office of the Dead; Psalm incipits."
Decoration: 6 large miniatures, 8 historiated initials with marginal extenders, full illuminated borders on miniature pages, numerous illuminated and filigree initials; arms on fol. 13r.
M.1052 is dated in the colophon on folio 190: finis. M.cccc.lxxxiii. die xi / mensis.Marcii [i.e. 11 March 1483].
Script
textura
Language
Latin and Italian
Classification