Indiana University Bloomington, Ricketts 51

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS592

Shelfmark:

Ricketts 51

Title:

Diurnal

Artist:

Hans Wertinger, also called Hans Schwab von Wertinger (1465/70–1533), of Landshut, or his workshop

Hans Wertinger WIKIDATA

Place:

Germany, Bavaria

Germany TGN

Date:

s. XVI(1/4); 1500-1525

sixteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Binding: Bound in old (perhaps early nineteenth-century) parchment over pasteboards; in a brown cloth case.
Figurative details, ff. 1-69: 2 historiated initials, both 10 lines high, showing Saint Andrew (fol. 11r) and Saints Peter and Paul (fol. 50r). 10-line illuminated initial on fol. 1r.
Other decoration, ff. 1-69: Some very fine calligraphic cadels and flourishes in upper and lower margins, rubrics in red; 2-line illuminated initials throughout (1157 of them, according to Ricketts’ counting) in leafy designs in colours and burnished gold with very fine sprays of coloured leaves scrolling and twirling into the margins.
Script, ff. 1-69: Semi-cursive Liturgical Hand.
Layout, ff. 1-69: Volume 1: i#^10# [first originally blank], ii#^4# [of 8, i–iv in volume 2], iii–vi#^8#, vii#^7# [of 8, lacking i, before fol. 47], viii–ix#^8#; with a few tiny traces of catchwords; ruled in black, apparently in ink, 28 lines, written-space 100 mm. by 62 mm.
Other decoration, ff.1-116v: Some very fine calligraphic cadels and flourishes in upper and lower margins, rubrics in red; 2-line illuminated initials throughout (1157 of them, according to Ricketts’ counting) in leafy designs in colours and burnished gold with very fine sprays of coloured leaves scrolling and twirling into the margins.
Script, ff.1-116v: Semi-cursive Liturgical Hand.
Layout, ff.1-116v: Volume 2: i–xiv#^8#, xv#^4# [of 8, v–viii in volume 1.]; with a few tiny traces of catchwords; ruled in black, apparently in ink, 28 lines, written-space 100 mm. by 62 mm.

Former Owner(s):

Philipp von der Pflaz (1480-1541), prince bishop of Freising 1507-41, and presumably bequeathed by him to the Benedictine cathedral church of the Virgin Mary and Saint Corbinianus, Freising, founded in 1020 and suppressed in 1802.

Philip of the Palatinate WIKIDATA

Philipp von der Pflaz (1480-1541), prince bishop of Freising 1507-41, and presumably bequeathed by him to the Benedictine cathedral church of the Virgin Mary and Saint Corbinianus, Freising, founded in 1020 and suppressed in 1802.

Freising Cathedral WIKIDATA

Henry Willett (1823-1905); his sale, Sotheby’s, 5 July 1905, lot 15, to E. Parsons; Parsons cat. 261 (1907), no. 455; C. L. Ricketts, and acquired by the Lilly Library with the Ricketts Collection in 1961.

Henry Willett WIKIDATA

Henry Willett (1823-1905); his sale, Sotheby’s, 5 July 1905, lot 15, to E. Parsons; Parsons cat. 261 (1907), no. 455; C. L. Ricketts, and acquired by the Lilly Library with the Ricketts Collection in 1961.

Edwin Parsons & Sons WIKIDATA

Henry Willett (1823-1905); his sale, Sotheby’s, 5 July 1905, lot 15, to E. Parsons; Parsons cat. 261 (1907), no. 455; C. L. Ricketts, and acquired by the Lilly Library with the Ricketts Collection in 1961.

Coella Lindsay Ricketts WIKIDATA

Associated Agent(s):

Philipp von der Pfaz, Count Palatine, owner

Philip of the Palatinate WIKIDATA

Note:

Bibliography: De Ricci 1935, p. 625; Krämer 1989, p. 261.
ff. 1-69: A sixteenth-century note on fol. 22v says, hoc festum est in ecclesia chathedrali institutum plenum which confirms that it was probably in use in Freising cathedral after the death of Bishop von der Pflaz in 1541.
ff. 1-69: Latin.
ff.1-116v: Some sixteenth century marginal notes.
ff.1-116v: Latin.
ff. 1-69: Use of Freising; In its original sequence it comprises: a Calendar (volume 1, fol. 2r), including in red the dedication of the church (2 May) and Saint Corbinianus (8 September, and his translation, 20 November); the Temporal, winter portion, Pars Hyemalis de tempore secundum Breviarium chori ecclesie & frisingensis,from the first Sunday in Advent (volume 2, fol. 1r) to the first...
ff. 1r-116v: Use of Freising; Note that Vol 2, 1r-166v originally was part of Vol 1, coming after the Calendar on 9v and before 10r. In its original sequence the Diurnal comprises: a Calendar (volume 1, fol. 2r), including in red the dedication of the church (2 May) and Saint Corbinianus (8 September, and his translation, 20 November); the Temporal, winter portion, Pars Hyemalis de tempore...

Institutional Record:

https://archive.org/details/Ricketts51_40

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.archivelab.org/iiif/images_Ricketts51_40/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

Indiana University Bloomington