Augustinian Monastic Book of Hours, Use of Rome, in Latin, decorated manuscript on parchment [Italy, (Florence), dated 1 January 1467] 136 leaves (plus an endleaf at front and back reused from a contemporary Italian choirbook), foliated in modern pencil 1-137, complete, collation: i6, ii-xiv10, ornamental catchwords in calligraphic penstrokes sometimes touched with yellow, and leaf signature in purple ink in sixth gathering, single column, 16 or 17 lines of 2 sizes of a fine late gothic bookhand, rubrics in red, capitals and flourishes in Litany touched in yellow, large initials in blue or red with ornate contrasting penwork infill and surround, terminating in trailing tendrils with line-drawn leaves and buds, text somewhat scuffed in places with flaking of ink (notably on last 2 leaves), some small spots and stains, but overall in good condition, 130 by 100mm.; Italian nineteenth-century binding of dark brown blind-tooled leather, some small scuffs and wear to spine edges Provenance: 1. Almost certainly written and decorated for an inmate of an Augustinian monastery in Florence, perhaps Santo Spirito (the Calendar is monastic, and the Augustinian Use is indicated by the high grading of St. Augustine and his mother Monica in the Calendar, and his presence as Sancte pater Augustine in the Litany; while the presence of local saints, Miniatus and Reparatus, identify the site of this house as Florence). Its scribe finished it on 1 January 1467 with a Latin verse colophon on fols.136rv: Finito libro isto referamus gratia Christo. Qui scripsit scribat semper cum domino vivat. Vivat in celis in suo nomine felix. Anno dni. Mo.cccc.lxvij. die I in mensis Ianuarii. The Augustinian house of Santo Spirito, Florence, was constructed c. 1300 near the Ponte Vecchio, and received the library of Boccaccio in 1375 as a bequest. 2. Sold in our rooms, 9 December 2015, lot 121, for £5580. Text: The volume comprises, a Calendar (fol. 1r); the Hours of the Virgin (fol. 7r), with Lauds (fol. 12r), Prime (fol. 18r), Terce, Sext, None, Vespers (fol. 25v), and Compline, followed by variants for days of the week (fols. 31v-36r) and liturgical seasons (fols. 36v-43r); the Hours of the Passion (fol. 43r); the Hours of the Cross (fol. 55v); the Seven Penitential Psalms (fol. 57r); Litany and petitions (fol. 64v); the Gradual Psalms (fol. 71r); the Office of the Dead (fol. 78v); the Psalter of the Virgin (fol. 109r); and a hymn attributed to St Bernard: Salve mundi salutare … (fol. 131r).
Augustinian Monastic Book of Hours, Use of Rome, in Latin, decorated manuscript on parchment [Italy, (Florence), dated 1 January 1467] 136 leaves (plus an endleaf at front and back reused from a contemporary Italian choirbook), foliated in modern pencil 1-137, complete, collation: i6, ii-xiv10, ornamental catchwords in calligraphic penstrokes sometimes touched with yellow, and leaf signature in purple ink in sixth gathering, single column, 16 or 17 lines of 2 sizes of a fine late gothic bookhand, rubrics in red, capitals and flourishes in Litany touched in yellow, large initials in blue or red with ornate contrasting penwork infill and surround, terminating in trailing tendrils with line-drawn leaves and buds, text somewhat scuffed in places with flaking of ink (notably on last 2 leaves), some small spots and stains, but overall in good condition, 130 by 100mm.; Italian nineteenth-century binding of dark brown blind-tooled leather, some small scuffs and wear to spine edges Provenance: 1. Almost certainly written and decorated for an inmate of an Augustinian monastery in Florence, perhaps Santo Spirito (the Calendar is monastic, and the Augustinian Use is indicated by the high grading of St. Augustine and his mother Monica in the Calendar, and his presence as Sancte pater Augustine in the Litany; while the presence of local saints, Miniatus and Reparatus, identify the site of this house as Florence). Its scribe finished it on 1 January 1467 with a Latin verse colophon on fols.136rv: Finito libro isto referamus gratia Christo. Qui scripsit scribat semper cum domino vivat. Vivat in celis in suo nomine felix. Anno dni. Mo.cccc.lxvij. die I in mensis Ianuarii. The Augustinian house of Santo Spirito, Florence, was constructed c. 1300 near the Ponte Vecchio, and received the library of Boccaccio in 1375 as a bequest. 2. Sold in our rooms, 9 December 2015, lot 121, for £5580. Text: The volume comprises, a Calendar (fol. 1r); the Hours of the Virgin (fol. 7r), with Lauds (fol. 12r), Prime (fol. 18r), Terce, Sext, None, Vespers (fol. 25v), and Compline, followed by variants for days of the week (fols. 31v-36r) and liturgical seasons (fols. 36v-43r); the Hours of the Passion (fol. 43r); the Hours of the Cross (fol. 55v); the Seven Penitential Psalms (fol. 57r); Litany and petitions (fol. 64v); the Gradual Psalms (fol. 71r); the Office of the Dead (fol. 78v); the Psalter of the Virgin (fol. 109r); and a hymn attributed to St Bernard: Salve mundi salutare … (fol. 131r).
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