University of Pennsylvania, Oversize Ms. Codex 1531
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS1397
- Shelfmark:
- Oversize Ms. Codex 1531
- Title:
- Hybrid book of hours : use of Rome.
- Catholic Church
- Place:
- France
- Date:
- [1507?]
- Language:
- Latin and French
- Physical Description:
- Extent: 120 leaves : parchment, illustrations ; 245 x 160 mm bound to 258 x 170 mm
- Former Owner(s):
- Collins, Mary Schell, 1864-1948
Lothian, Philip Henry Kerr, Marquis of, 1882-1940
- Note:
- Title supplied by cataloger.
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.
Ms. codex.
Script: Manuscript leaves written in a French semi-Gothic hand (Les Enluminures), with antiphons, responsories, and versicles written slightly smaller than lessons and prayers.
Layout: Manuscript leaves written in 32 long lines.
Collation: Parchment, 120; 1-13⁸ 14⁴ (with printed signatures A-P) 15⁴ (manuscript leaves); modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto, 1-120.
Binding: 16th-century velvet with remains of two later fore-edge clasps (Les Enluminures) over blind-stamped leather over wooden boards.
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...
Formerly held in the stock and reference library of H. P. Kraus (New York, label inside upper cover).
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 by Les Enluminures (Paris and Chicago), 2009.
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. - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9944959863503681
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p3vd6p604/manifest
- Holding Institution:
