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Breviary, Use of Rome, in Latin, decorated manuscript on vellum [Lombardy (most probably Brescia), second half of the fifteenth century]
Description
- Vellum
Provenance
(1) Written and decorated in second half of the fifteenth century, most probably in Brescia (principal saints of city in red in Calendar: SS. Appolonius, 7 July, and Philastrius, fourth-century bishop of the city, 18 July; and there are near-contemporary additions to the Calendar of other Brescian saint-bishops, such as the first-century Anatolius, the fourth-century Ursinus and Faustinus, the sixth-century Titianus, and so on, few of these actually canonised) .
(2) Frits Fasting of Rio de Janiero: his twentieth-century inkstamp on front pastedown, and “Ex-Libris No.4855”; sold in our rooms, 11 December 1979, lot 57, and Christie’s, 17 July 1985, lot 300.
Catalogue Note
The volume includes: a Calendar (fol.1r); a Ferial Psalter, with the Temporal (fol.87r) and the Sanctoral (fol.253r); the Common (fol.360v); and the Offices of the Trinity (fol.377r), and the Virgin (fol.388v), followed by various benedictions and the Order of Confirmation (fol.395v).