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., result 1 of 1

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.

illuminated manuscripts

1515

Paris, France (creation); Allegheny College Library Special Collections (American library, Meadville, PA, founded 1815)

vellum (parchment)

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)

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

Allegheny College Library Special Collections

264.02 C286 he

Owen, William

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