Newberry Library, VAULT Case MS 122

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS18087

Shelfmark:

VAULT Case MS 122

Title:

Prayers

Prayers

Date:

approximately 1350-1400

fourteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

lat

Latin WIKIDATA

ita

Italian WIKIDATA

Material:

parchment, illustrations

Parchment AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 1 roll (1 column, 184 lines) : parchment, illustrations ; 106 x 14 cm

Note:

Title from dealer's description.
Written in brown ink in a gothic liturgical hand.
First letters of each line stroked in yellow. Fifty-five 1-line initials alternating in red and blue. One 2-line initial in blue with red penwork. One 6-line historiated initial with acanthus scrolls in the margin decorated with a bird and moth.
Historiated initial O at beginning painted orange against burnished gold ground. Picture is of Saint Jerome looking upward and holding a rosary. The style is Florentine, cf. Daneu-Littanzi and Debae.
Italian origin based on linguistic and paleographic evidence. Tuscan ca. 1350-1400 on basis of style of illumination.
Text: lines 1-173 a collection of prayers in verse in Italian praising St. Jerome by Battista da Montefeltro; lines 174-184 confession in Latin. Text size: 98 x 10 cm.
Roll is composed of two pieces of parchment 56 and 52 cm.

Keyword:

Jerome, Saint, -419 or 420

Prayers and devotions

Manuscripts, Italian

Devotional literature, Italian

Institutional Record:

https://i-share-nby.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01CARLI_NBY/i5mcb2/alma99860638805867

IIIF Manifest:

https://collections.newberry.org/IIIF3/Presentation/Manifest/2KXJ8ZPB3F9Q

Holding Institution:

Newberry Library