Bod-Inc: H-164
Horae ad usum Romanum (Rome) [Italian and Latin]
Analysis of Content
a1r [Title-page.]
a2r [Calendarium.] A Roman calendar with numerous Venetian saints; see C. Dondi, ‘Books of Hours: The Development of the Texts in Printed Form', in Incunabula and their Readers. Printing, Selling and Using Books in the Fifteenth Century, ed. K. Jensen (London, 2003), 53-70, 212-23, at 62-3.
b6v ‘Initium sancti euangelii secundum Ioannem.' (Io 1,1-14.)
c1r ‘Incipit officium beate virginis Marie secundum consuetudinem romane curie. Ad matutinum. Versus.’ Incipit: ‘[D]omine labia mea aperies . . .’
h1v [Mutationes in Officio BVM.] ‘Isti tres psalmi sequentes dicuntur die martis et die veneris. Ad matutinum. Antiphona.’ Incipit: ‘Specie tua. Psalmus. [E]ructauit cor meum . . .’
i8v ‘Ad missam sancte Marie. Introitus.’ Incipit: ‘[S]alue sancta parens . . .’
k3r ‘Incipiunt septem psalmi penitentiales.’ Ps 6; 31; 37; 50; 101; 129; 142.
l4v [Litaniae sanctorum.] ‘Ludouice' among the confessors; ‘Elisabeth' among the virgins and widows.
m8v ‘Incipit officium mortuorum. Ad vesperas. Antiphona.’ Incipit: ‘Placebo domino. Psalmus. [D]ilexi quoniam . . .’
r7r ‘Incipit officium sancte crucis. Ad matutinum.’ Incipit: ‘[Versus.] [D]omine labia mea aperies . . .’
s3r ‘Incipit officium sancti spiritus. Ad matutinum.’ Incipit: ‘[Versus.] [D]omine labia mea aperies . . .’
s5v ‘Oratio sancti Anselmi.’ Incipit: ‘[D]omine deus meus si feci ut essem reus tuus, numquid facere potui ut non essem effectus tuus . . .’
s6v ‘Canticum sanctorum Ambrosii et Augustini transmutatum in laudem gloriose virginis Marie.’ Incipit: ‘[T]e matrem dei laudamus, | te Mariam virginem confitemur . . .’
t1r Sixtus IV, Pont. Max.(?): [Oratio ad BVM.] ‘Papa Sixtus quartus concessit cuilibet deuote dicenti infrascriptam orationem vndecim milia annorum de vera indulgentia pro qualibet vice.’ Incipit: ‘[A]ue sanctissima Maria mater dei, regina celi, porta paradisi . . .’ See H‑162.
t1r [Septem gaudia BVM.] ‘Questa sie vna Salutatione angelica cum la quale vno deuotissimo religioso salutaua e laudaua ogni giorno la gloriosa vergine Maria, zoe.’ Incipit: ‘[G]aude virgo mater Christi . . .’ Chevalier, Rep. hymn., 7017; AH 42 no. 73 / 1a; 2a; ?; ?; 5a; 6a; 7a; Meersseman, Akathistos, II 39, 207.
t2r ‘Oratio.’ Incipit: ‘[D]eus qui beatissimam et gloriosam virginem Mariam in conceptu et in partu virginitate seruata . . .’
t2v [Introduction to Oratio ad Ihesum Christum.] ‘Perseuerando longo tempo el dicto religioso . . . li apparui el nostro signor dicendoli . . . che ‘l douesse imparare e studiare de salutarlo secundo el modo infrascripto, zoe.’ [Oratio ad Ihesum Christum.] Incipit: ‘[A]ue domine Iesu Christe, verbum patris, filius virginis, agnus dei . . .’ Chevalier, Rep. hymn., 1844.
t4r [Oratio.] Incipit: ‘[O] dulcissime atque piissime domine Iesu Christe per lachrymas beatissime virginis Marie dulcissime . . .’
t5r Gregorius(?): ‘Oratio piissima sancti Gregorii . . .’ Incipit: ‘[O] domine Iesu Christe adoro te in cruce pendentem . . .’ Leroquais, Livres d'heures, II, 346 no. xxxvii, in the order: 1; 2; 4; 5; 6; 7; 3.
t6v ‘Quando eleuatur corpus Christi dicatur sequens oratio.’ Incipit: ‘[A]ue salus mundi, verbum patris, hostia vera . . .’ Wilmart, Auteurs spirituels, 377 note 1 no. 5.
t6v ‘Oratio dicenda in eleuatione calicis.’ Incipit: ‘[O] dulcis sanguis mala destrue que parat anguis . . .’
t7r [Suffragia.] With the following variations compared with H‑151: 4; ‘Andrea'; 5; 3; ‘Thoma'; ‘Philippo et Iacobo'; ‘Bartholomeo'; ‘Matheo apostolo'; ‘Simone et Iuda'; ‘Mathia apostolo'; 2; ‘Luca euangelista'; ‘Marco euangelista'; 10; ‘Rocho'; 19.
v6v Bernardus(?): [Versus sancti Bernardi.] ‘Colloquium diboli(!) cum beato Bernardo. [E]l se lege che'l diauolo infernale disse al deuoto san Bernardo . . .’ Incipit: ‘[I]lumina oculos meos . . .’ Ps 12,4; 24,4; 30,6; 38,5; 115,16; 141,5; 4,7; 85,17.
v8v [Colophon.]
Imprint
Imprint: Venice: Johannes Emericus de Spira, 30 Nov. 1494. 16°.
Collation
Collation: a–v8.
Types: Types: 130 G; 92 G.
Leaves: 160 leaves.
Line number: 16 lines (c2r).
Type area: Type area 73 × 52 mm (c2r).
Illustrations: 7 small woodcuts (36 × 25 mm).
Remarks: a1r: Title: ‘(red) Officium beate ma= | rie virginis ƥm cō | ſuetudineƺ ro | mane curie.' a2r: ‘(red) Ianuarius habet di | es xxxj . . .' c1r: ‘(red) Incipit officium beate vir- | ginis marie ſecundū conſuetu | dinem romane curie.' k3r: ‘(red) Incipiunt ſeptem pſalmi peni | tētiales.' m8v: ‘(red) Incipit officium mortuorum.' r7r: ‘(red) Incipit officium ſancte crucis.' s3r: ‘(red) Incipit officium ſancti ſpi- | ritus.' v8v: ‘(black) Impreſſuƺ Venetijs [per] Ioan- | nem emericū de Spira: Anno | a natiuitate dn̄i .M.cccc.xciiij. | pridie kl'. Decembris'. | [Emericus's device A; see Kristeller 306].
References
ISTC: ih00377300
Proctor: Not in Pr;
Others: Sheppard 4561.
LCN: 14462475
Copies
Copy number: H-164(1)
On parchment.
Binding: Sixteenth-century(?) parchment, with gilt-edged leaves.
Size: 110 × 80 × 30 mm.
Size of leaf: 102 × 74 mm.
On c1r, m8v, r7r, s3r renaissance-style borders are supplied in blue, black, or red, decorated in gold or silver with architectural designs, cameos, and grotesques; on k3r a border is supplied in red with precious stones, pearls, and cameos; see Pächt and Alexander II, 112 pr. 108 and pl. lxxxviii. The seven small historiated woodcuts are coloured in red, blue, green, gold, and other colours. Three- to four-line woodcut initials coloured in gold on a red or blue ground. Other initials are supplied in gold on a blue or red (purple) or, occasionally, green ground.
Provenance: Giovanni Francesco Busati (sixteenth century); inscriptions on rear endleaves in a sixteenth-century hand: ‘Io. Francesco Busato Ca[ ] Pezzan di Melma' [Pezzano and Melma, then Silea, are both in the province of Treviso], ‘Iste liber meus est si quid a vobis placet, Io. Franco’, ‘Zuane Busato'. Purchased in 1913.
SHELFMARK: Inc. g. I4.1494.1.
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