University of Pennsylvania, Ms. Codex 1869
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS2120
- Shelfmark:
- Ms. Codex 1869
- Title:
- Book of hours : Use of Bourges.
- Catholic Church
- Place:
- France
- Date:
- [between 1475 and 1499]
- Language:
- Latin
- Physical Description:
- Extent: 165 leaves : parchment ; 147 x 100 (86 x 60) mm bound to 153 x 113 mm.
- Former Owner(s):
- Dénie, Jean Felix
Jansen op de Haar, G.A
Goix, Jeanne de
Rérolle, Antoine Joseph, 1850-1924
Goix, Jean de
- Note:
- Ms. codex.
Purchased together with Contre-partie du manuscrit de Lamothe, Ms. Codex 1870, University of Pennsylvania.
Origin: Written in France in the late 15th century.
Decoration: 7 large arched miniatures with full foliate borders and three lines of text with a three-line illuminated initial on gold ground, all badly damaged (Nativity, p. 98; Annunciation to the Shepherds, p. 114; Presentation in the Temple, p. 125; Flight to Egypt, p. 139; Owner before Virgin and Child?, p. 210; Pietà, p. 222; Funeral with monks, p. 225); one full foliate border (p. 1...
Binding: Late 19th-century leather, gilt tooling; gilt spine title Manuscrit venant de la Ville de La Mothe; marbled endpapers.
Pagination: Parchment, i (19th-century paper) + i (19th-century parchment) + 165 + i (19th-century paper); [i--xxii], 1-308; late 19th- or early 20th-century pagination in ink, upper outer corners.
Layout: Written in twelve long lines; frame-ruled in faint ink.
Script: Written in Gothic textualis semi-quadrata script, with versicles, responses, and antiphons written in a slightly smaller version of the script.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Formerly owned by G.A. Jansen op de Haar, 1982; purchased from antiques dealer Simone Comode, 19 rue Cocand, Autun (acquisition note in accompanying volume, Ms. Codex 1870).
Formerly owned by notary and amateur antiquarian Antoine Joseph Rérolle, Autun, Saône-et-Loire (inscription, p. ii), who bought it in the late 19th century from an elderly woman of Outremécourt, at which time it was already badly damaged by dust and mice and lacked its beginning, end, and initials that had been cut out (account in accompanying volume, Ms. Codex 1870); he reassembled the...
Sold at auction by Adams Amsterdam Auctions (Amsterdam, Netherlands), 19 June 2017, lot 180.
Formerly owned by the DeGoix family in the 17th century, with inscriptions by Jean DeGoix (p. 144, partly legible, with reference to another possible owner, Jean Felix Dénie (?), and La Motte) and Jeanne DeGoix (p. 190-191). - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9977129795703681
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p30863c06/manifest
- Holding Institution:
