Artist: Attributed to Belbello da Pavia (active ca. 1430, died after 1473)
Decoration: 8 historiated initials (1 six-line and 7 three-line historiated initials in gold and silver with foliate extensions); two-line initials with calligraphic marginal decoration extending in a bar down left border and ending in a tracery flourish of gold and silver; one-line silver initials with gold pen work flourishes throughout. Headings and rubrics in silver.
Description of illustrations: 1r: (Hours of the Virgin, Matins) Virgin and Child in gold and silver in the initial "D" of "Domine Labia mea aperies" with a 3-line incipit and 2 lines of text enclosed in a segmented floral border. Unidentified arms in lower margin: crowned double-headed eagle in chief above 3 golden pears (?); 19r: (Lauds) Initial "D" of "Deus in ad/iuto" containing a cowled, beardless young man in three-quarter view, his head turned and his hands raised in prayer; 41v: (Prime) Initial "D" of "Deus" with a bearded, old man in three-quarter view praying; 49r: (Terce) Initial "D" of "Deus" with a cowled, bearded man his hands raised in prayer; 55v: (Sext) Initial "D" of "Deus" with a cowled, bearded man in profile, his arms crossed; 61v: (None) Initial "D" of "Deus" with a cowled bearded man facing forward, his hands joined in prayer; 67r: (Vespers) Initial "D" of "Deus" with a cowled, bearded man facing forward, his arms crossed; 79r: (Compline) Initial "C" with a young beardless man with right hand raised in blessing.
Ms. book of hours written and illuminated probably in northern Italy, ca. 1470.
Text begins in silver: "INCIPIT. OFFICI V/M.VIR"
Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.
Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.
Book of hours
Accession number:
MS M.1172
Title:
Book of hours
Created:
Northern Italy, ca. 1470.
Binding:
Modern black morocco replaced after sale in 1989 by deep green velvet with three bands in a cloth case with a morocco spine gilt made by James Brockman.
Credit:
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Ladislaus von Hoffmann, 2010.
Description:
115 leaves (1 column, 11 lines) : vellum stained purple now a pale rose, ill. ; 140 x 88 mm
Provenance:
Christie's sale, London, 21 June, 1989, lot 22, acquired by Quaritch and sold to Ladislaus von Hoffmann [LVH 32].
Notes:
Script:
humanist script in gold and silver
Language:
Latin
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