[Book of hours]
Subtitle: [use of Rome]
Contributors: Sauvageot, Charles, former owner; Bragge, William, 1823-1884, former owner; Gibbs, Henry Hucks, 1819-1907, former owner; Fordham University. Libraries
Published: 1450
Language: lat
Number of pages: 187
Subjects: Texts; Books of hours; Latin; Prayers and devotions; Catholic Church; Early works to 1800; Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)
Other titles: Officium beatæ Mariæ virginis :
Work titles: Book of hours (Fordham University. MS 03)
Description: Contains calendar; office of the Beata Virgo Maria with changed service for week and liturgical time (first portion missing; mass of the Beata Virgo Maria; office of the dead; penitential psalms & litany; short hours of the Cross and of the Holy Spirit.
Notes: Ms. codex.

Title supplied by cataloger.

Collation: Parchment, fol. iii (modern paper) + 187 + 1 + iv; 1⁸ 2-9⁵ 10⁸(-1) 11-12⁵ 13⁸ 14-15⁵ 16⁸(-1); catchwords are written in frames horizontally at the center or vertically at the lower right.

Layout: One column of 13 lines ruled in drypoint.

Script: Italian gothic.

Decoration: Historiated initials (missing the leaf for the opening of the Hours of the Virgin); one-line gold initials with alternating red, blue, and purple flourishing; three-line gold initials surrounded by tri-color green, maroon, and blue-filled boxes; black flourishing; 87v line drawing of a man's head in profile; some five-line gold initials.

Binding: Later binding in red leather stamped wtih gold over wood boards; crucifixion on front, Madonna and Child on back; 2 clasps, missing;  page edges stamped in gold; paper flyleaves - Charles Sauvageot, Académie Royale de Musique in France (late 19th century).

Origin: Copied after 1446, the canonization of Nicholas of Tolentino (in the calendar on 10 September).

Shelfmark: New York, Fordham University, Walsh Library, MS 03.

Latin.

Bookplate of Charles Sauvageot, Académie Royale de Musique in France (late 19th century) on front endpaper; William Bragge (1823-1884), his sale, Sotheby's, 7 June 1876, lot 108; Henry Hucks Gibbs (1819-1907), 1st Baron Aldenham; Aldenham sale, Sotheby's, 22 March 1937, lot 179 to Thorpe; bookplate "Aldenham house herts" on rear endpaper.

Description based on record in Digital Scriptorium created by Rachel Liptak, http://ds.lib.berkeley.edu/MS03_3
Table of contents: title: 1. fol. 1r-15v: calendar.; title: 2. fol. 17r-100r: office of the Virgin Mary: [text] "Salutari nostro preoccupemus fatiem euis in confessione ... explicit offitium Beate Marie virginis."; title: 3. fol. 100v-143v: mass of the Virgin Mary (includes office of the dead): [rubr.] "Incipit missa B[ea]te Marie virgins. Introitus."; title: 4. fol. 144r-179v: penitential psalms and litany: "[rubr.] Incipuit septe psalms pe[n]itentiales."; title: 5. fol. 179v.-187v: hours of the cross and Holy Spirit: "[rubr.] Incipit off[itiu]m s[an]cte crucis ... has horas canonicas cui denotione tibi s[an]cte spiritus pia ratione dixit ut nos visites inspiratione [ivvamus?] ingiter in celi regione. Amen."