University of Pennsylvania, Ms. Codex 1531

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS1397

Shelfmark:

Ms. Codex 1531

Title:

Hybrid book of hours; use of Rome

Book of hours

Author:

Catholic Church

Catholic Church WIKIDATA

Place:

France

France TGN

Date:

1507?

sixteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin and French

Latin WIKIDATA

French WIKIDATA

Material:

parchment, illustrations

Parchment AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 120 leaves : parchment, illustrations ; 245 x 160 mm bound to 258 x 170 mm

Former Owner(s):

Lothian, Philip Henry Kerr, Marquis of, 1882-1940

Philip Kerr, 11th Marquess of Lothian WIKIDATA

Collins, Mary Schell, 1864-1948

Mary Schell Collins WIKIDATA

Note:

Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Collation: Parchment, 120; 1-138 144 (with printed signatures A-P) 154 (manuscript leaves); modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto, 1-120. Link to collation model at end of record.
Layout: Manuscript leaves written in 32 long lines.
Script: Manuscript leaves written in a French semi-Gothic hand (Les Enluminures), with antiphons, responsories, and versicles written slightly smaller than lessons and prayers.
Decoration: 19 full-page metal cuts (one duplicate), three large and without borders, of which two (Saint John boiled in oil, f. 8v, and Jesus seized in Gethsemane, f. 11v) are fully illuminated with gold highlights, and 16 with architectural borders; historiated woodcut and metal cut borders with biblical, folk, historical, and ornamental images, captions in French and Latin, and a Dance of...
Binding: Original (16th-century) velvet with remains of two later fore-edge clasps (Les Enluminures) over blind-stamped leather over wooden boards.
For more detailed information on the printed portion of this item, see the record under the title Heures a lusaige de Romme tout au long sans riens requerir.
Formerly owned by the Marquesses of Lothian, holders of the title Earl of Ancram (armorial bookplate with angel and unicorn as supporters and mottos Nemo me impune lacessit and Sero sed serio, inside upper cover; armorial booklabel with angel and unicorn as supporters and motto Sero sed serio, inside lower cover; 18th-century signature Ancram in shield of title device and on occasional...
Sold at auction in the Lothian sale at Anderson Galleries (New York), 27 Jan. 1932, lot 66, to Philadelphia book dealer Charles Sessler (1854-1935).
Formerly owned by Mary S. Collins (Philadelphia, bookplate by Philadelphia artist James Horsey Fincken dated 1938, inside upper cover), wife of Curtis Publishing executive and manuscript collector Philip S. Collins.
Formerly held in the stock and reference library of H. P. Kraus (New York, label inside upper cover).
Sold by Les Enluminures (Paris and Chicago), 2009.

Keyword:

Manuscripts, Renaissance

Manuscripts, Latin

Sixteenth century

Prayers and devotions

metal cuts

Devotional literature

woodcuts (prints)

Hybrid books

Prayers

Specimens

devotional calendars

illuminations (paintings)

books of hours

codices (bound manuscripts)

Illumination of books and manuscripts

Catholic Church

Early works

Institutional Record:

https://find.library.upenn.edu/catalog/9944959863503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p3vd6p604/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania