Title from dealer website (http://www.textmanuscripts.com/medieval/confraternity-holy-name-jesus-141372, viewed July 19, 2019).
Illuminated manuscript on parchment.
"No catchwords or signatures, ruled in hardpoint ... written in black ink in gothic textualis bookhand on 25 lines, capitals highlighted in yellow throughout, initials one to four lines high alternating in red or blue throughout"--From dealer description.
Text includes Pater Noster, salutation in Italian, and Office of the confraternity; litanies; continuation of Office; thirteen prayers in Italian; the Salve regina prayer, the Te deum hymn; prayers in Latin and Italian; statutes and rulebook of the confraternity in Italian; Office of the Dead; litanies, prayers in Latin and Italian; prayers in Latin added later in the sixteenth century; additions to the statutes and regulations in Italian.
Illustration includes full-page miniature of the Crucifixion and four appearances of the IHS monogram, in two small miniatures and two initials.
Made for the Compagnia del Nome di Jesu, a Genoa lay brotherhood, at the start of the sixteenth century; new regulations added at points later in the same century, the last dating after February 25, 1582. Sixteenth-century inscriptions indicate ownership by Giacomo Saluzzo; a more recent inscription indicates Henrietta Katherine Burrell's gift of the book to Richard Durnford, Bishop of Chichester.
Note [Digital Version]
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