Franklin

[Horae de Sancta Katherina].

Publication:
[Germany], [between 1400 and 1425]
Format/Description:
Manuscript
28 leaves : parchment, illustrations ; 122 x 90 (70 x 54) mm bound to 132 x 101 mm
Status/Location:
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Subjects:
Jesus Christ -- Passion.
Jesus Christ.
Catherine, of Alexandria, Saint.
Barbara, Saint.
Catholic Church.
Passion of Jesus Christ.
Barbara, Saint -- Prayers and devotions.
Catherine, of Alexandria, Saint -- Prayers and devotions.
Catholic Church -- Prayers and devotions -- Early works to 1800.
Catholic Church -- Liturgy -- Texts.
Liturgics.
Christian saints -- Prayers and devotions.
Form/Genre:
Texts.
Books of hours.
Codices.
Illuminations.
Manuscripts, Latin.
Manuscripts, Renaissance.
Prayers and devotions.
Prayers.
Devotional literature.
Language:
Latin.
Summary:
Hours of St. Catherine, incomplete at the end, where prayers to St. Barbara, an Office of St. Barbara, and the Passion account from the Gospel of Matthew (partial) are added in a second hand.
Notes:
Ms. codex.
Title from Zacour-Hirsch Catalogue.
Foliation: Parchment, iii (modern paper) + 28 + ii (modern paper); [1-28]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
Layout: Written in 19 long lines; ruled in ink, prickings visible.
Script: Written in a single Gothic book hand with added texts (f. 24v-25r, 27r-28v) and some corrections in a hybrid script written by a second hand.
Decoration: 2-line and 3-line Illuminated initials in gold (worn off in places), red, green, blue, and pink; rubrics in red.
Binding: 18th- or 19th-century morocco, front endleaves loose.
Origin: Written in Germany in the early 15th century (Zacour-Hirsch). 19th-century description tipped onto front endleaf has date ca. 1390.
Incipit: Incipiunt hore de lauda Katherina edite...Text: Deprecare regem celi...
Probably hours of St. Katherine of Alexandria (f. 13v): "O beata Katherina babylonis."
Penn Provenance:
Formerly owned by Ernest F. Salmon, 1892 (autograph, front endleaf).
E. B. Krumbhaar, 1910 (autograph, front endleaf; stamp with winged crown, f. 1r).
Cited in:
Described in Zacour, Norman P. and Hirsch, Rudolf. Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Libraries of the University of Pennsylvania to 1800 (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1965), Supplement B, Library Chronicle 45 (1981), p. 9 (Ms. Latin 272).
Listed in De Ricci, Seymour. Census of medieval and Renaissance manuscripts in the United States and Canada, vol. 2, p. 1993, no. 1.
Cited as:
UPenn Ms. Codex 674
Contributor:
Krumbhaar, E. B. (Edward Bell), 1882-1966, former owner.
OCLC:
155985364