Lehigh University, Lehigh Codex 15
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- DS ID:
- DS30059
- Shelfmark:
- Lehigh Codex 15
- Title:
- Book of Hours, Franciscan Use
- Place:
- Northeastern France(?) or Flanders(?)
- Date:
- 1350-1450
- Language:
- Latin; Middle Dutch (ca. 1050-1350)
- Material:
- Parchment
- Physical Description:
- Extent: ii+124+ii; 142 x 96 mm bound to 147 x 105 mm; parchment
- Former Owner(s):
- Honeyman, Robert B.
- Note:
- The O intemerata prayer, added after the end of the final suffrage on fol. 121r, and continuing to fol. 124v, is in a different hand
Extensive birth notes in later hands, mostly in Dutch or Flemish, on fols. 1r-4v, 21v, and 22v; cancelled note on fol. 4v includes the date 1659; notes on fol. 21v includes the dates 1647, 1650, and 1669; note on fol. 22v from 1579; other notes considerably earlier in date
Fol. 6 is severely trimmed along its outer edge
Binding: Nineteenth-century stamped brown calf, French; "HEURES, MSS. VÈLLIN" stamped on spine
Layout: One column of fourteen lines, ruled in brown ink; written area: 83 x 54 mm
Script: Gothic--textualis semi-quadrata
Decoration: Large illuminated initials and foliate borders at major text divisions; illuminated initials with foliate sprays at minor divisions; small illuminated initials throughout
Related resource: Hirsch, John C., Western Manuscripts of the Twelfth through the Sixteenth Centuries in Lehigh University Libraries: A Guide to the Exhibition (Bethlehem, PA: Rare Book Room, Linderman Library, Lehigh University, 1970), p. 27, no. 15.
Provenance: Red bookplate, inside front cover: "Ex Libris Robert Honeyman IV" with shield and banner stating "Progredere ne Regredere" - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0007/html/lehigh_codex_015.html
- Holding Institution:
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