Hore secundum vsum Romanum.
Contributors: Rogers, Bruce, 1870-1957, former owner.; Catholic Church.; Pforzheimer Bruce Rogers Collection (Library of Congress)
Published: 1510
Language: lat
Number of pages: 52
Subjects: Catholic Church -- Prayer-books and devotions -- Latin.; Books of hours -- Texts -- Early works to 1800.; Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern) -- Washington (D.C.)
Other titles: Horae secundum usum Romanum; Bible. N.T. Gospels. Latin. Selections. Bruce Rogers hours.; Short hours of the Cross.; Short hours of the Holy Spirit.
Notes: In Latin, with calendar in French.
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Title from leaf [17]a where it reads, written in uppercase: Seqvvntvr hore se/cvndvm vsum Roma/nvm.
First words on leaf 1a (in red): Ianuier a xxxi iour.
An incomplete book of hours, the ms. contains the calendar, the usual four readings from the Gospels, the Little office of the Virgin, the Short hours of the Cross, and the Short hours of the Holy Spirit. The Office for the dead to which the reader is referred on leaf [46]b, the Penitential psalms, and other expected texts are wanting, either never completed by the scribe or removed.
The first 9 leaves are numbered in modern pencil 1-11, with 2-3 missing; the two missing leaves contained a part of the calendar (Feb. 10-28/29 through May 1); leaf 8 is mutilated by removal of a 43 mm wide strip along the fore edge.
Written probably in France, all by one scribe.
The script is a humanistic roman minuscule of high quality, 22 lines in a written area 114 mm x 68 mm. Captions in red.
Decoration: 6 illuminated initials in the Gospel readings, partly zoomorphic (with images of insects). All other spaces left by the scribe for initials are blank. Blank pages face the beginnings of individual hours.
Acquired by the Library of Congress in 1990 by gift from the Carl and Lily Pforzheimer Foundation as part of the personal library of the typographer Bruce Rogers (d. 1957).