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Corporate Author:
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Catholic Church.
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Uniform Title:
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Book of hours (Ms. Free Library of Philadelphia. Lewis E 121)
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Title:
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[Book of hours].
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Publication Information:
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[Florence, Italy, late 15th century].
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Physical Description:
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199 leaves : parchment, ill. ; 129 x 92 mm.
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General Note:
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Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Collation: Parchment, fol. ii (paper) + 199 + i (paper)
Layout: Written in 1 column of 13 lines (calendar: 16 lines ), ruled in brown ink (calendar ruled in darker ink); textblock: 70 x 51 mm; calendar: 75 x 65 mm.
Script: Written in humanistic script; prayer on fols. 198v-199v written in Italian Rotunda.
Decoration: 2 historiated/figured initials, 3 decorated initials, 5 foliate borders, some inhabited and historiated, red and blue 1-2 lines initials throughout.
Shelfmark: Philadelphia, Free Library of Philadelphia, MS Lewis E 121.
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Contents:
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1. fol. 1r-12v: Calendar, Florence use.
2. fol. 13r-83r: Hours of the Virgin, Rome use. Rubric (fol. 13r) : Incipit officium beate marie uirginis secu[n]dum co[n]suetudine[m] romane curie q[uo]d celebrat[ur] a uesp[er]is p[ri]mi sabb[a]ti post pent[escostem] us[que] ad uesp[er]is sabb[a]ti proximi an[te] adue[n]tum et a festo purificatio[n]is s[an]c[t]e marie us[que] ad uesp[er]as .iii. ferie maioris ebdomade, Ad matutine. Rubric (fol. 83r): Explicit officium beate marie uirginis secundum roma[n]e curie. Amen.
3. fol. 83v-84v: blank.
4. fol. 85r-132v: Office of the Dead, Rome use. Rubric (fol. 85r): Incipit officium defunctorum ad uesperis. ant[iphona].
5. fol. 133r-156v: Penitential psalms. Rubric (fol. 133r): Incipiunt psalmi penite[n]tiali. Ant[phona]. Rubric (fol. 156v): Incipiunt psalmi penite[n]tiali. Ant[phona].
6. fol. 157r-v: blank.
7. fol. 158r-193r: Long Hours of the Cross. Rubric (fol. 158r): Incipit officium in honorem sancte crucis et in primis dicitur iusta scripta. ant[iphona]. ad om[n]es horas. ant. Office begins with the antiphon "Per signum crucis." Rubric (fol. 193r): Explicit officium sanctissime passionis d[omi]ni nostri Y[he]su Xpi.
8. fol. 194r-198r: Short Hours of the Cross. Rubric (fol. 194r): Incipit officium deuotisse crucis quicu[m]q[ue] dixerit quotidie devote consquetur indulgentiam .xl. die[orum] suoru[m] peccatoru[m]. Rubric (fol. 198r): Explicit officium in honore deuotissime crucis. Amen.
9. fol. 198v-199v: Variation of the prayer to the Virgin, "Sancta Maria succurre miseris" (added by contemporary hand). Rubric: Antiphona della uergine maria. Incipit: Sancta Maria succurre miseris.
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Corporate Subject:
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Catholic Church Prayer-books and devotions Latin.
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Subject Term:
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Manuscripts, Latin Medieval and modern Pennsylvania Philadelphia.
Books of hours Italy Florence.
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Renaissance Italy Florence.
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Added Author:
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Lewis, John Frederick,
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Added Author:
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Free Library of Philadelphia.
Free Library of Philadelphia.
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