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Book of Hours, Use of Rome. Heures a l'usaige de Rome tout au long sans riens requerir: Avec les figures de l'apocalipse [et] plusieurs aultres figures.
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Title
Book of Hours, Use of Rome. Heures a l'usaige de Rome tout au long sans riens requerir: Avec les figures de l'apocalipse [et] plusieurs aultres figures.
Work Type
illuminated manuscripts
Date
1515
Location
Paris, France (creation); Allegheny College Library Special Collections (American library, Meadville, PA, founded 1815)
Material
vellum (parchment)
Measurements
Full page: 7 1/4 in x 4 1/4 in (18 cm x 11cm). Miniature: vary 1 3/4 in x 7/8 in (4 cm x 2 cm)
Description
Physical Description: Printed on vellum, 208 pages, Signatures A-I, K-N, 8 vo, 15 full page images, 24 diminutive miniatures, 26 lines to page, Roman characters printed in red and black throughout; woodcuts illuminated in colors and gold; Gothic print. On fly-leaf: This book of the Canonical Hours rebound in 1854 (1930) once belonged to one of the nuns of Port Royal Des Champs. Gillet Hardoyn printing. Organization: Calendar, 1516 to 1527; ff.2v-8r; Gospel Lessons, ff. 9r-15v; “Obsecro te”, 16r-17v; “O Intemerata”, ff. 17v-22r; Hours of the Virgin, ff. 22v-56v; Hours of the Holy Spirit, ff. 57r-68r; Suffrages, ff. 68v-; Office of the Dead, ff. 72v-87r; The collection of illuminated manuscripts were gifted to Allegheny College by Charles Carroll Albertson, D.D. 1899 in 1952.
Latin, French
Repository
Allegheny College Library Special Collections
ID Number
264.02 C286 he
Photographer
Owen, William
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