Office book, in Latin, decorated manuscript on paper

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1,000 - 1,500 GBP

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Description

38 leaves (last blank), 134mm. by 93mm., complete, collation: i-iv^{8, v^{6, with horizontal catchwords, 18-19 lines, written in dark brown ink, rubrics in red (and occasionally blue), contemporary pagination in red, capitals touched in red,}} decorated initials throughout, 2 lines high, in red or blue with contrasting penwork, minor stains, nineteenth-century quarter vellum and green marbled boards

Catalogue Note

The text is a supplement to a Breviary, containing offices of saints either of local interest or recently canonised, including Saint Nicholas of Tolentino (canonised 1446), p.44, Saint Bonaventura (canonised 1482), p.17, and, notably, Saint Francis of Paolo (canonised in 1519), p.4. Two unusual names suggest an interest in Poland: Saint Stanislaus, bishop of Cracow (d.1079), p.7, and Hyacinth, canon of Cracow (d.1257), p.26, here called ‘Beatus’ not ‘Sanctus’, for he was not canonised until 1594. However, most names are Italian. The only saint with a heading in blue ink is Saint Paulinus of Lucca, p.19, and the volume concludes with a long office for Saint Fredianus, p.71. Both were bishops of Lucca.