FACSIMILE BOOK OF HOURS VAT. ROSS. 94, COMPLETE, AS NEW

BEAUTIFUL FACSIMILE BOOK OF HOURS ‘Codex Vaticanus Rossianus 94’  from the Bibliotheca Apostolica Vaticana with commentary. Lovely miniature book of hours in brown leather with raised bands and gilt decoration. Page edges are gilt. Nestled in a suede box with accompanying commentary.

Published Zurich, Belser Verlag, 1983, 2 volumes, facsimile volume 240 pages, leather cover, gilt edges, 12mo; accompanying commentary (in Spanish) by L.M. Tocci, 42 pages, 8vo, cloth hard cover.

Excellent condition. As New.

About the Original.

The precious manuscript Vat. Ross. 94 is a codex of small dimensions (9.5cm x 7.2cm x 3cm), small even for a prayer book. It is written in the French Gothic script, which is even and elegant, with elongated and yet generous letters; it comes from the end of the XV. or beginning of the XVI. Century. The codex lacks the heraldic elements or property marks that would enable its origin and history to be determined. We only know its more recent history. It belonged to the Roman Giovan Francesco de Rossi, who at the end of the 18th century bought valuable books all over Europe. After his death, the widow donated the collection, which consisted of over 1,000 manuscripts and around 9,000 rare printed books, to the Society of Jesus, which had it brought to Vienna. From there it was brought back to Rome in 1921 and was placed in the Vatican Library.