VATICAN OFFICE OF THE VIRGIN. FACSIMILE OF CODEX VAT. Office of the Madonna. Codex Vaticanus Latinus 10293. With 474 facsimile pages, 34 full-page miniatures and 19 initials. Full facsimile published by Zurich, Belser, 1987. Facsimile volume, 237 leaves/ 474 pages, 12 ° (11 x 9 cm), leather with ornamental blind embossing. Commentary volume (in German) by Bodo Brinkmann, cloth, 30 pages, octavo. Both in the publisher’s case. Limited edition of 2900 copies this is no. Very decorative edition with three sided gilt edging. Made in the early 16th in Bruges by the artist school of Jean Bourdichon and the David Master of the Breviary Grimani, the Vatican Office of the Virgin contains a calendar, 34 full-page miniatures and thousands of decorative initials. The Codex Vaticanus latinus 10293 presented here in facsimile is a book of hours in Latin. Books of Hours Are prayer books that are primarily intended for lay use and contain prayers of the hours. Hourly prayers are cycles of seven or eight texts to be recited by the prayer, which are arranged according to the ancient Roman day division: the first text is Matutin, the second the lauds, the morning praise; one is just before praying, the other after sunrise. This is followed by the prim at six o’clock, the third at nine, the sixth at twelve o’clock, the non at three o’clock, the Vespers at six o’clock and the completes before going to bed. The division is based on the prayer of the hours of the monks, as it is recorded in the breviary. Cycles of prayer that contain every eight hours are called the Office.
