• Book of Hours, Use of Rome. Greek

Uniform title:

• Book of hours. Greek

Alternative:

• Hōrai tēs aeiparthenou Marias kat' ethos tēs Rhomaikēs aulēs. Hepta psalmoi tēs metanoias = Horae beatiss. uirginis secu[n]dum consuetudinem Romanae curiae. Septem psalmi poenitentiales cu[m] laetaniis & orationibus.
• Horae beatiss. uirginis secundum consuetudinem Romanae curiae
• Horae beatissimae uirginis secundum consuetudinem Romanae curiae
• Hepta psalmoi tēs metanoias
• Septem psalmi poenitentiales cum laetaniis et orationibus

Author:

• Catholic Church

Printer:

• Manuzio, Aldo, 1449 or 1450-1515

Publisher:

• Venice : Aldus Manutius,

Format:

• Book

Date:

• 1497

Extent:

• 112 leaves : ill. (woodcut) ; 11.7 x 8.8 cm. (16mo)

Language:

• Greek, Ancient (to 1453)
• Latin

Description:

• Imprint from colophon.
• Collation: [alpha-chi]⁸.
• Colophon: Henetiēsin etypōthē par' Aldō, ouk aneu mentoi pronomiou, chiliostō tetrakosiostō ennenēkostō hebdomō apo tēs theogonias etei, mēnos Poseideōnos pemptē histamenou.
• Sometimes found with two quires of eight leaves prefixed (signed a-b), containing "Breuissima introductio ad litteras graecas;" cf. BMC & Stillwell; discussed in Renouard, p. 15.
• Printed in a single column, 13 lines per page; text in black and red, initials, headlines, t.p. and colophon in red.

Bookseller:

• Leo S. Olschki (Firm)

Call number:

• 39.5
• Electronic Resource

View in catalog:

• https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/9946214723506421

Subject:

• Incunabula—Specimens
• Books of hours—Specimens

Collections:

• Incunabula at Princeton
• Collections Donated to Princeton University Library
• The Scheide Library
• Treasures of Rare Book Division

Available online:

• Digital content