University of Pennsylvania, Ms. Codex 1625

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS1433

Shelfmark:

Ms. Codex 1625

Title:

Gospel lessons for the Office of the Dead : use of Chartres.

Author:

Catholic Church

Catholic Church WIKIDATA

Place:

France

France TGN

Date:

[1390?]

fourteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 6 leaves : parchment ; 147 x 109 (80 x 53) mm bound to 154 x 118 mm

Note:

Title supplied by cataloger.
Origin: Written in western France, possibly Chartres or Poitiers, ca. 1390 (King Alfred's Notebook).
Ms. codex.
Binding: Modern leather (Don Etherington, Summerfield, N.C.).
Decoration: 4 2-line initials on gold grounds infilled with vine tendrils, with vine extensions in margins (f. 2r, 3v, 4v, 6r); 8 1-line initials in gold on colored grounds with short tendril extensions (f. 1r, 1v, 6r); rubrication in red.
Foliation: Parchment, i (modern) + 6 + i (modern); 1⁶; [1-6], modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto.
Layout: Written in 12 long lines; frame-ruled in faint red ink, with double upper horizontal bounding line.
Script: Written in Gothic script, with versicles and responses in a slightly smaller Gothic script (f. 1r-1v).
Parent manuscript sold at auction at Sotheby's, 8 Jul. 2008, lot 28; broken in Germany (King Alfred's Notebook).
Sold by King Alfred's Notebook (Cayce, S.C.), cat. 10 (2012), no. 51.

Keyword:

Devotional literature

illuminations (paintings)

Manuscripts, Medieval

codices (bound manuscripts)

Prayers and devotions

books of hours

Manuscripts, Latin

Fragments (object portions)

Prayers

Catholic Church

Institutional Record:

https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9958099593503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p36d4h/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania