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PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Parchment, iii parchment flyleaves + 175 fols. + i parchment flyleaf, 78 x 56 mm (43 x 29 mm), 15 long lines, ruled in brown ink, catchwords.
BINDING: Nineteenth century, black leather over wooden boards, traces of a pair of fastening devices on fore-edge, edges tinted violet, kept in a brown blind-tooled leather case.
CONTENTS:
fol. 1r–12v Calendar
fols. 13r–94v Hours of the Virgin
fols. 95r–117r Penitential Psalms and Litany
fols. 122v–171v Office of the Dead
fols. 172r–175r Short Hours of the Cross
DECORATION: Five historiated initials in pink or green, with white floral motifs and acanthus extensions on gold grounds for major text divisions: fol. 13r Hours of the Virgin, Matins, [D, 10 ll.] Annunciation, with full floral and spraywork border framed within gold bars and containing a lozenge-shaped vignette with a bird and a wreath medallion with space left blank for a coat of arms; fol. 29v Hours of the Virgin for the Advent season, Matins, [I, 15 ll.] Virgin and Child, the full-length figure of the Virgin forming the shaft of the initial, with one-sided floral and spraywork border; fol. 95r Penitential Psalms, [D, 8 ll.] David penitent, with full floral, spraywork and bar border; fol. 122v Office of the Dead, [D, 9 ll.] Skull on grassy background, with full border containing flowers, acanthus, spraywork with gold balls, and gold and blue bars; fol. 172r Short Hours of the Cross, [P, 5 ll.] The Cross and Instruments of the Passion, with two-sided floral, spraywork and acanthus border .
ORNAMENTATION: Pink or green initials [5–8 ll.] with white floral motifs and acanthus extensions on gold grounds, and partial floral and spraywork borders for lesser text divisions; alternate blue and gold initials [1-2 ll.] with red or violet pen flourishing.
Notes
History note: Ownership inscription on first flyleaf at front: Francisci de Bassis S.V.B. et S[anc]ti Bartholomei Rigii Pastoris 1665. nunc vero Congreg. S. Caroli. 9; label with the number 83 on upper cover; acquired by Frank McClean (1837–1904) in 1892 in Rome (James 1912a, 135); his bequest 1904.
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed
(1904)
by
McClean, Frank
