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  • Scribe: Sanvito, Bartolomeo, 1433-1511 ** Language: Latin. Incipit: // dinumerasti. Sed parce peccatis meis. Explicit: carmen deo nostro. Videbunt mul//[-ti]. Folio range: [1]r-v
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Time Period
  • Circa 1480
Place of Origin
  • Rome, Italy
Description
  • A leaf from an Italian Book of Hours produced circa 1480 by the scribe Bartolomeo Sanvito. The text comprises the end of the second nocturne and the beginning of the third nocturne for the Office of the Dead. Other leaves from the same original manuscript were included in Otto Ege's "Original Leaves from Famous Bibles, Nine Centuries 1121-1935 AD" (Series A) portfolio.
Call Number
  • Curio 220.5 O69
Contributors
  • Records created or enhanced by the Peripheral Manuscript Project’s Description team, led by Dr. Elizabeth K. Hebbard and Dr. Sarah L. Noonan.
Source Identifier
  • bec_008_001
Keywords
  • Book of Hours
  • Fragment
  • Christian
  • Italy
  • Illumination
  • Devotion
Title
  • Book of Hours [Fragment]
Physical Description
  • Physical type: Fragment. Fragment type: Detached. Classification: Leaf (untrimmed). Support material: Parchment. Extent: 1. Page dimensions (in mm): 118 x 80. Written area (in mm): 65 x 45. Line height (in mm): 5.6. Script: Humanistic. Script type: Humanistic minuscule. Layout: One column, ruled in drypoint for 12 lines. Number of columns: 1. Number of lines: 12. Decoration: Three-line decorated floral initial in red, green, and gold on verso. Alternating one-line gold and blue initials. Illumination
Language
  • Latin
Alternate Identifier
  • BCMSS08 (Grant item ID issued by Berea)
  • HL 79 (Gwara Handlist Number)
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Mitwirkende
  • Sanvito, Bartolomeo, 1433-1511 (Scribe)
Date Created
  • 15th century
Owning Institution
  • Berea College Special Collections and Archives. Berea College. Berea, KY
Provenance
  • Otto Ege once owned the book from which this leaf was taken. It is not known how the leaf entered the Hutchins Library's collection.
Bibliographic Citation
  • Oliver, Judith. Manuscripts Sacred and Secular. Boston: Endowment for Biblical Research, 1985. [no. 77]
  • De la Mare, A. C., and Laura Nuvoloni. Bartolomeo Sanvito: The Life and Work of a Renaissance Scribe. Paris: Association Internationale de Bibliophile, 2009. [pp. 276-7]
  • De Hamel, Christopher. Gilding the Lilly: A Hundred Medieval and Illuminated Manuscripts in the Lilly Library. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Libraries, 2010. [pp. 170-71]

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