Indiana University Bloomington, Medieval and Renaissance 36

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DS ID:

DS589

Shelfmark:

Medieval and Renaissance 36

Title:

Breviary of Elisabeth von Walmden
Inscription: the flyleaf (fol. 1v), "iIste liber est in custodia Elizabet de wal[m]den quem scribere fecit ad laudem dei si q[uequam] in eo legerit oret pro ea propter deum", ‘This book is in the keeping of Elisabeth von Walmden who had it written to the praise of God; whoever reads from it, may she pray for her, for the sake of God’, to which another hand (perhaps hers) adds in vita & post mort
Breviary

Place:

Germany

Germany TGN

Date:

s. XVI(in); 1500-1515

sixteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Binding: Bound in old (probably seventeenth-century) calf over wooden boards, rebacked and extensively repaired, clasps and catches probably replaced; in a fawn cloth case.
Figurative details, ff. 287: 3 large illuminated initials in elaborate floral designs (fols. 142r, 230v and 249v); ten large historiated initials and one miniature, showing Christ in Judgement (fol. 74r, 13-line historiated initial), Christ showing his wounds to Saint Thomas (fol. 123v, 9-line miniature), the Resurrection (fol. 124r, 13-line historiated initial), the Holy Dove (fol. 136v...
Other decoration, ff. 287: Rubrics in red; large and small initials throughout in red and blue, many large and very large initials with decorative penwork, sometimes of great complexity (e.g., fol. 240v, with marginal banderoles, or fol. 258v, including a heart pierced with two arrows).
Script, ff. 287: Gothic Textura.
Layout, ff. 287: Collation: flyleaf +i–xxv#^8#, xxvi#^8+1# [fol. 209 added, including a miniature], xxvii–xxv#^8#, xxvi#^6# + 4 flyleaves; ruled in black ink, 18 lines, written-space 88 mm. by 54 mm., written in brown ink.

Former Owner(s):

The Augustinian nunnery of Sankt Maria Magdalena, Hildesheim, founded 1224 and suppressed at the Reformation; sale by Karl & Faber, Munich, 25 June 1963, lot 4; acquired by the Lilly Library from Lathrop Harper, New York, 1968.

Sankt Maria Magdalena WIKIDATA

The Augustinian nunnery of Sankt Maria Magdalena, Hildesheim, founded 1224 and suppressed at the Reformation; sale by Karl & Faber, Munich, 25 June 1963, lot 4; acquired by the Lilly Library from Lathrop Harper, New York, 1968.

Lathrop C. Harper, Inc. WIKIDATA

Associated Agent(s):

Elisabeth von Walmden, nun of Hildesheim who commissioned manuscript

Elisabeth von Walmden WIKIDATA

Ludowic von Harthausen, later 19th century owner

Ludowic von Harthausen WIKIDATA

Note:

ff. 287: Date probably 1509.
ff. 287: Latin.
ff. 2v-285v: The manuscript opens on fol. 2v with a circular table for finding the Sunday letter sub isto anno 1509 which is entirely credible for the manuscript as a whole. The Calendar from fol. 3r is graded, and includes the dedications of the chapel of Saints Giles and George (1 March) and other chapels and the dedication of the church (on Jubilate Sunday, the third after Easter). It has...

Institutional Record:

https://archive.org/details/MedievalandRenaissance36_40

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.archivelab.org/iiif/images_MedievalandRenaissance36_40/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

Indiana University Bloomington