Book of hours, according to the Use of Rome, written in Florence.
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.
(i) Calendar in red and brown, KL monograms in blue. Entries include Saints Aquilinus (15 May, in red), Clare of Assisi (12 August), and Nicholas of Tolentino (10 September). Folios 13-14 are blank but ruled. (Folio 1.)
(ii) Hours of the Virgin. (Folio 15.)
(iii) Office of the Dead. (Folio 81.)
(iv) Penitential Psalms and Litany. (Folio 119.)
(v) Hours of the Cross. (Folio 140.)
(vi) Hours of the Holy Ghost. (Folio 144.)
On folio 147 verso is an erased prayer, 'Oratio ante communionem'. Written in a humanist hand in brown ink with rubrics in pink and initials in blue. The folio at the beginning of each section has a gold initial in a white vine-stem on a pink, green and blue ground, extending into partial borders. In the lower border of folio 15 is a pink scallop-shell encircled by a wreath and containing a shield with the arms azure three wheels or. These are the arms of the Ceruti family, but they also appear as the first and fourth quarters of the Inghirami family. On folio 147 is an erased inscription 'Domini [?] Antoni lnghirami De Vultera'. Pasted to folio iii is a note written by W Trone, Farnham Royal, in the eighteenth century, describing the manuscript as a missal written for a member of the Chaucer family.
Dates
- Creation: [Circa 1450-circa 1460.]
Conditions Governing Access
Normal access conditions apply.
Conditions Governing Use
Normal reproduction conditions apply, subject to any copyright restrictions.
Extent
158 Leaves ; 105 x 70 millimetres.
Language of Materials
Undetermined
Arrangement
xi (i-ii, x-xi paper) + 147 folios.
Collation: 14 (blank), 2¹², 3² (blank), 4-16¹⁰, 17⁶.
With catchwords. 14 lines.
Custodial History
The manuscript was bought by the National Library of Scotland with the aid of the Rosebery Fund.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Bought, Sotheby's, 2 February 1960, lot 314.
Physical Description
Vellum.
In a binding of dark purple morocco, gilt-tooled, probably English, of the second quarter of the nineteenth century.
Genre / Form
- Title
- National Library of Scotland Catalogue of Manuscripts
- Author
- National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
- Description rules
- International Standard for Archival Description - General
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division Repository
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