University of Pennsylvania, Ms. Codex 688
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS1592
- Shelfmark:
- Ms. Codex 688
- Title:
- Book of hours.
- Catholic Church
- Place:
- Italy
- Date:
- [between 1500 and 1599]
- Language:
- Latin, with weekday devotions in Italian (f. 129-133)
- Physical Description:
- Extent: 144 leaves : parchment, color illustrations ; 111 x 79 (55 x 38) mm bound to 115 x 91 mm
- Former Owner(s):
- Jackson, John C
Ely, William, Reverend
Riegel, Jacob
Fetterolf, Edwin H
- Note:
- Origin: Written in Italy in the 16th century (Zacour-Hirsch).
Binding: Contemporary calf, rebacked, split along front hinge, upper cover detached.
Title supplied by cataloger; title in Zacour-Hirsch "Horae."
Foliation: Parchment, ii (paper) + 144 + i (paper); [1-144]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
Layout: Written in 14 long lines in brown and red ink.
Script: Written in a humanist hand with later additions to liturgical calendar in a different hand.
Decoration: Gold and blue used for initials; spaces left for initials that were never completed; illuminated vine and flower (f. 13r).
Ms. codex.
Formerly owned by John C. Jackson, 1849 (autograph, f. 1r).
Formerly owned by Rev. William Ely of Philadelphia, purchased in Florence 1875 (note, front endleaf).
Formerly owned by Jacob Riegel, 1934 (note, front endleaf).
Gift of Edwin H. Fetterolf, 1942 (bookplate, front endleaf). - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9924874763503681
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p3vt1gr02/manifest
- Holding Institution:
