Manuscript: Vat.lat.14936

Manuscript

• Current Location: Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana Vat.lat.14936 (Vatican City, Vatican VA)
• Source:
• Date Range: 1561
• Use of: Rome
• Notes:
  • Date and Use on title page
  • Back of the title page has French inscription, later hand, naming Catherine de Medici, regent and mother of Kings Francis II, Charles IX and Henry II (1519-1589, queen 1547-1559). She is depicted in the miniature for vespers of the Office of the Dead with her sons Henry and Francis
  • Morello, Giovanni. Libri d’ore della Biblioteca apostolica vaticana. Zürich: Belser Verlag, 1988., pp. 91-92

Calendar

• Folios: 2r-13v
• Language: French
• Features: Dominical Letters
• Colors
  • High: Red
  • Medium: gold-dropcap-blue, gold-dropcap-red
  • Normal: Black
• Notes:
  • No KL, each month starts with the first letter of the month name as 2-line capitol, blue over shell-gold and vinework
  • Minimal verses, French
  • Bar line fillers in a gold, red, green, and blue, sequence