FEATURES – Codex on parchment, 207 x 145 mm, 274 pp.
ORIGIN – Italy: Bologna.
CHRONOLOGY – 14th century – 15th century: 1500 ca.
PATRONAGE AND OWNERS – The manuscript was commissioned by Bonaparte Ghislieri, nobleman from Bologna. Afterwards it belonged to the Albani family of Urbino. In 1897 the great English collector Henry Yates Thompson bought it and let it into his rich collection.
GENRE – Christianity; Private devotional books.
CONTENTS – Calendar and prayers.
LANGUAGE – Latin.
SCRIPT – Humanistic.
SCRIBE – Pietro Antonio Sallando.
DECORATION – 4 full-page miniatures, 1 miniature by Pietro Perugino (the only one in his career) portraying the martyrdom of St. Sebastian, calendar with 12 portraits of saints, 15 historiated initials, decorated initials, margins decorated with grotesques.
ARTIST – Amico Aspertini, Pietro Perugino (born Pietro Vannucci), Lorenzo Costa, Francesco Francia, Matteo da Milano.
STYLE – Renaissance.
d’Heures, d’Heures
d’ore, d’ore
