University of Pennsylvania, Ms. Codex 738

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS1640

Shelfmark:

Ms. Codex 738

Title:

Book of hours.

Author:

Catholic Church

Catholic Church WIKIDATA

Place:

Netherlands

Netherlands TGN

Date:

[14--]

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Dutch

Dutch WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 158 leaves : parchment, color illustrations ; 158 x 107 (95 x 61) mm bound to 164 x 106 mm

Former Owner(s):

Feiss, Paul Louis, 1875-

Paul Louis Feiss WIKIDATA

Laurie, James

James Laurie WIKIDATA

Note:

Layout: Written in 20 long lines.
Notes in a later hand (to 1684) on final 2 leaves comprise a family history of the Brantzum family of Friesland. A transcription of this chronicle of the Brantzum family and corrections to the description of the ms. by Philip E. Webber have been made by Lydia Wierda and shelved with the manuscript.
Foliation: Parchment, iii (paper) + 158 + i (parchment); [1-159]; modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto.
Ms. codex.
Script: Written in a Gothic book hand with notes in a later hand on the last folio and the back endleaf.
Decoration: Rubrics in red, alternating red and blue capitals, illuminated historiated initials with illuminated borders of Madonna and Child (f. 13r), Gregorian Man of Sorrows (f. 47r), Christ in the attitude of Benediction (f. 75r), Pentecost (f. 95r), The Last Judgment (f. 111r), and Hell's Mouth (f. 127r); one initial appears to be unfinished (f. 69r). Water damage to a number of...
Binding: Contemporary blind stamped goatskin over wooden boards, lower cover detached, upper cover nearly detached.
Origin: Written in the northeast Netherlands (dialect), 15th century (Webber).
Incipit: Hier begint onser wrouwen ghetide (f. 13r).
Sold at auction at Parke-Bernet Galleries, 15 Dec. 1953 (catalog 1487), lot 390.
Formerly owned by James Laurie; Paul-Louis Feiss (bookplates, inside upper cover).
Acquired through Lathrop C. Harper, 1956.

Keyword:

devotional calendars

Manuscripts, Renaissance

Specimens

Manuscripts, Medieval

codices (bound manuscripts)

Manuscripts, Dutch

books of hours

Family histories

illuminations (paintings)

Illumination of books and manuscripts, Flemish

Genealogy

Institutional Record:

https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9924875773503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p3pv6b80t/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania