Indiana University Bloomington, Ricketts 97
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS555
- Shelfmark:
- Ricketts 97
- Place:
- Prague
- Date:
- s. XV(in); 1400-1415
- Language:
- Latin
- Physical Description:
- Binding: Not bound.
Figurative details, One leaf: Recto with large historiated initial ‘M’ (“Magi videntes . . .”), 170 mm. by 152 mm., the three Magi adoring the Christ Child, who sits on his mother’s lap against a glorious background of a hanging tapestry of scarlet sewn with gold. The eldest king kneels with his head bare, offering a golden casket. The next is taking off his crown, in the presence of the king...
Other decoration, One leaf: Rubrics in red, capitals infilled in yellow, a small initial in blue.
Music, One leaf: Diamond-shaped neumes on 4-line red staves.
Layout, One leaf: Ruled in red ink (with distinctive double ruling for vertical bounding lines), 7 lines of text alternating with 7 of music, written-space 417 mm. by 280 mm. - Former Owner(s):
- According to a sixteenth-century Latin poem formerly pasted inside the manuscript’s upper cover, the volume was transferred in 1504 from the Benedictine abbey of St. Peter in Salzburg, to the Cistercian abbey of Raitenhaslach, Bavaria (founded 1143, suppressed in 1803).
According to a sixteenth-century Latin poem formerly pasted inside the manuscript’s upper cover, the volume was transferred in 1504 from the Benedictine abbey of St. Peter in Salzburg, to the Cistercian abbey of Raitenhaslach, Bavaria (founded 1143, suppressed in 1803).
the Benedictine abbey of Seitenstetten, Lower Austria (founded 1112, still functioning); sold by the monks in about 1926, probably to Jacques Rosenthal of Munich, and taken apart, the leaves with miniatures being dispersed by Maggs; this leaf, Maggs cat. 512 (1928), no. 291; C. L. Ricketts; acquired by the Lilly Library with the Ricketts Collection in 1961.
the Benedictine abbey of Seitenstetten, Lower Austria (founded 1112, still functioning); sold by the monks in about 1926, probably to Jacques Rosenthal of Munich, and taken apart, the leaves with miniatures being dispersed by Maggs; this leaf, Maggs cat. 512 (1928), no. 291; C. L. Ricketts; acquired by the Lilly Library with the Ricketts Collection in 1961.
the Benedictine abbey of Seitenstetten, Lower Austria (founded 1112, still functioning); sold by the monks in about 1926, probably to Jacques Rosenthal of Munich, and taken apart, the leaves with miniatures being dispersed by Maggs; this leaf, Maggs cat. 512 (1928), no. 291; C. L. Ricketts; acquired by the Lilly Library with the Ricketts Collection in 1961.
the Benedictine abbey of Seitenstetten, Lower Austria (founded 1112, still functioning); sold by the monks in about 1926, probably to Jacques Rosenthal of Munich, and taken apart, the leaves with miniatures being dispersed by Maggs; this leaf, Maggs cat. 512 (1928), no. 291; C. L. Ricketts; acquired by the Lilly Library with the Ricketts Collection in 1961.
- Note:
- Manuscript note: The Ricketts leaf was folio 101 in the complete manuscript. Seitenstetten, like many Austrian religious houses between the Wars, faced financial ruin from high inflation and failed forests, and the monks themselves sold parts of their own library in the late 1920s. The Antiphoner was broken up soon afterwards. Most of the 16 leaves with historiated initials were offered for...
Bibliography: De Ricci 1935, p. 631; Schmidt 1969, pp. 148 and 155 (then untraced); Nordenfalk 1975, p. 154, no. 7 (then untraced); Wixom 1977, p. 317, fig. 11 (then untraced); N. E. Brewer in ‘Catalogue’ 1988, pp. 5--57, no. 10; G. Schmidt, M. Roland and B. D. Boehm in Boehm and Fajt 2005, pp. 269-74, no. 116 d.
One leaf: The manuscript was illuminated in Prague, doubtless in the court of Wenceslas IV, king of Bohemia 1378–1419, whose features are perhaps reflected in those of the youngest king shown.
One leaf: Latin.
One leaf: historiated initial ‘M’ (“Magi videntes . . .”). - Institutional Record:
- https://archive.org/details/Ricketts97_40
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://iiif.archivelab.org/iiif/images_Ricketts97_40/manifest.json
- Holding Institution:
