Book of Hours, Use of Rome, in Latin [Flanders (Bruges?), c.1460-80]

155x115mm, vellum, ii+113+ii leaves, imperfect and partly misbound, lacking a calendar and other leaves including most of those, doubtless illuminated, at the start of major texts, 17 lines, 80x55mm, preserving 4 LARGE ILLUMINATED INITIALS WITH FULL OR PARTIAL BORDERS (ff.1r, 11v, 42r, 68r), thumbed and with darkening of some leaves, sewn into a wrapper made from a fragment of a 14th-century Choirbook with music on four-line red staves, rastrum 12mm

PROVENANCE

(1) TIBOR GEREVICH (1882-1954) of Budapest, art historian, professor, politician, government commissioner, Director of the Hungarian Institute in Rome, and President of the National Monuments Committee. (2) From the Tőzsér collection, Hungary.

TEXT

Hours of the Cross (f.1r); Mass of the Virgin (f.7r); Gospel extracts (f.11v); Obsecro te (f.16r) and O intemerata (f.19r); Hours of the Sacrament (f.22r); Hours of the Virgin, with Matins (f.26r), Lauds (f.42r), Prime (f.53r), Terce (f.56), Sext (f.59r), None (f.61r), Vespers (f.67r), Compline (f.68r); seasonal variants of the Hours of the Virgin (f.73r); Penitential Psalms (f.77r), litany (f.85r) and collects (f.90r); Office of the Dead (f.92r).