University of Pennsylvania, Ms. Codex 1056
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS878
- Shelfmark:
- Ms. Codex 1056
- Title:
- Book of hours; use of Rouen
- Catholic Church
- Place:
- Rouen, France
- Date:
- circa 1475
- Language:
- Latin, with calendar and accessory texts in French
- Material:
- parchment, illustrations
- Physical Description:
- Extent: 122 leaves : parchment, illustrations ; 184 x 120 (98 x 61) mm bound to 192 x 138 mm
- Former Owner(s):
- Claret de La Tourrette, Jacques-Annibal, 1692-1776
Vasilevich, Dionysiĭ
- Note:
- Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Collation: Parchment, fol. i (parchment) + 120 + i (parchment); 112 29 (+ 1, f. 13, before 1) 33 4-88 92 10-148 156. Link to collation model at end of record.
Layout: Written in 16 long lines; frame-ruled in red ink; prickings in outer margin of some leaves.
Script: Written in a Gothic bookhand (textualis quadrata).
Decoration: 15 arched miniatures above three lines of text with three-line initials, with full borders (evangelists, f. 14r; Annunciation, with roundels of Adam and Eve with the serpent, the meeting of Mary's parents at the Golden Gate, and the marriage of Mary and Joseph, f. 25r; Visitation, f. 34r; Nativity, with roundels of shepherds with musical instruments and the Tiburtine Sibyl showing...
Binding: 16th century, early; brown calf over wooden boards, blind-stamped with a panel of St. Barbara on the upper cover between the inscription Sancta Barbara/ora pro nobis and a panel of John the Baptist on the lower cover between the inscription Ung dieu sancte Johannes ung roy une foy/ora pro nobis une loy; attachments for two clasps; joints restored (Fogg).
Origin: Written and illuminated in Rouen, circa 1475.
Formerly owned by Madame Lespect (Rouen, 17th century, inscription by Nicolas Lepage, f. 13).
Formerly owned by Jacques-Annibal Claret de La Tourette (Lyons, 1692-1776, engraved armorial bookplate dated 1719 inside upper cover)
Formerly owned by Daniel-Marie, duc de Montfort (inscription, f. i)
Formerly owned by Dionysiĭ Vasilevich (modern inscription, f. i).
Sold by Sam Fogg Ltd. (London), 2007. - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://find.library.upenn.edu/catalog/9940764883503681
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p3b853k0m/manifest
- Holding Institution:
