Manuscript on parchment of a Book of Hours. With prayers in Italian. Probably made for a female member of the Augustinian order.
Description:
Binding: Original Italian brown cloth over wooden boards, sewn onto three double leather thongs; the cloth is embroidered with silver thread to a design of stars, squares and maltese crosses. Gilt and gauffered edges., Headings in red. 1-line versals alternately in red and blue; 2-line flourished initials with marginal extensions alternately in red and blue, the penwork in the contrasting colour (the normal type of initials throughout the manuscript); 3-line flourished KL ligatures in art. 1; 5-line litterae duplices or initials in the style of litterae duplices with developed penwork at the opening of the various Hours in art. 2; 6-line ditto in art. 3; a 4-line flourished initial at the opening of the Mass of the Virgin in art. 5. All initials are half inset., and Script: Copied by one hand in Southern Gothica Textualis Formata (Rotunda).
Subject (Name):
Augustinians and Catholic Church--Prayers and devotions
Subject (Topic):
Books of hours, Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven, and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Memorial for Pope Paul V in which his body was moved from St Peters to St. Mary Majors.
Alternative Title:
Breve racconto della trasportatione del corpo di Papa Paolo V. dalla basilica di S. Pietro à qvella di S. Maria Maggiore
Description:
Dedication to Cardinal Borghese dated at Rome, May 12, 1622 and signed: Lelio Guidiccioni., Engraving of the catafalque signed: Sergius Venturius inuentor, Io. Dominicus Garzolius delineauit, Theodorus Crueger sculpsit; engraving of capital detail signed: Sergius Venturius in. del., Teodor. Crueger sculp.; 16 plates of statues, mostly signed: Tedor. Cruger sculpsit, Io. Lanfranc. delin., Errata: p. 35, second count., Final p. blank., Illegible ms. note on front free endpaper., Memorial for Pope Paul V in which his body was moved from St Peter's to St. Mary Major's., Signatures: A-B⁶ C⁴ a-c⁶., and Statues depicted in plates are by Gian Lorenzo Bernini. Cf. Fagiolo dell'Arco, M. Festa barocca, p. 235.
Publisher:
Appresso l'Erede di Bartolomeo Zannetti,
Subject (Name):
Bernini, Gian Lorenzo, 1598-1680., Eredi di Bartolomeo Zannetti, printer., Garzolio, Giovanni Domenico., Krüger, Theodor, -1624., Lanfranchi, Giovanni., Paul--V,--Pope,--1552-1621--Death and burial., Paul--V,--Pope,--1552-1621--Poetry., and Venturi, Sergio, 1584?-1646.
Description of a festival held in Messina in August 1589 by order of the future King Philip III of Spain, in celebration of the discovery of relics believed to be of the martyr Placitus and his companions. Here, as commonly occurred from the 12th century.
Alternative Title:
Breve raguaglio dell'inventione e feste de gloriosi martiri Placido, e compagni mandato al seren.mo don Filippo d'Austria principe di Spagna
Description:
Description of a festival held in Messina in August 1589 by order of the future King Philip III of Spain, in celebration of the discovery of relics believed to be of the martyr Placitus and his companions. Here, as commonly occurred from the 12th century on, Placitus is confused with the later St. Placidus (companion of St. Benedict, monk of Subiaco, fl. 6th century)., Engraved t. p., illustrated., Errata on p. [7]-[8]., Illustrations: 27 full-page engravings (incl. t. p.; one repeated), chiefly depicting triumphal arches erected for the celebration and funeral biers with tableaux (incidents of St. Placitus' life and martyrdom) borne in the procession. Two plates depicting arches are signed: Rinaldvs Bonanvs inventor., Includes index., Shelf-mark on front paste-down: "5g G." Ms. note on p. [9] at end: "Primog. quad[er]ni de Brunasio.", and Signatures: [sec.]⁴ 2[dagger]⁴ 3[dagger]² A-2A⁴.
Publisher:
Stampato p[er] Fausto Bufalini,
Subject (Geographic):
Italy
Subject (Name):
Bonanno, Rinaldo, approximately 1545-1590., Bufalini, Fausto, d. 1592, printer., and Philip--III,--King of Spain,--1578-1621.
Subject (Topic):
Christian martyrs--Cult--Italy--Messina., Christian Saints--Cult--Italy--Messina., and Festivals--Italy--Messina--Early works to 1800.
