Franklin

[Book of hours].

Author/Creator:
Catholic Church.
Publication:
[France], [between 1450 and 1500]
Format/Description:
Manuscript
10 leaves : parchment, color illustrations ; 203 x 137 (115 x 70) mm bound to 211 x 150 mm
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Subjects:
Catherine, of Alexandria, Saint -- Prayers and devotions.
Catherine, of Alexandria, Saint.
Catholic Church -- Prayers and devotions -- Early works to 1800.
Catholic Church.
Illumination of books and manuscripts, French -- Specimens.
Illumination of books and manuscripts, French.
Form/Genre:
Books of hours.
Codices.
Illuminations.
Manuscripts, Latin.
Manuscripts, Medieval.
Manuscripts, Renaissance.
Specimens.
Prayers and devotions.
Prayers.
Devotional literature.
Language:
Latin.
Summary:
Fragment of a book of hours, French script, use of Sarum [?]. Misbound: includes Ad laudes (f. 1r-v, f. 7-10); Matins (f. 3r-6v), ending in the middle of the Te Deum; commemoration of St. Anne (f. 2r); commemoration of St. Catherine.
Notes:
Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger; title in Zacour-Hirsch, Horae.
Foliation: Parchment, iii (modern paper) + 10 + iii (modern paper); [1-10]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
Layout: Written in 21 long lines; frame-ruled in ink.
Script: Written in a Gothic script by a single hand.
Decoration: Wide illuminated border and illuminated 6-line initial (f. 1r); wide decorative border and fully colored 6-line miniature of St. Catherine (f. 2v); initials decorated in gold, red, and blue throughout.
Binding: Modern red morocco, upper cover detached.
Origin: Written in France in the second half of the 15th century.
Penn Provenance:
Formerly owned by E. B. Krumbhaar (bookplate, inside upper cover; stamp with winged crown, first two endleaves).
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. 10 (Ms. Latin 278).
Listed in De Ricci, Seymour. Census of medieval and Renaissance manuscripts in the United States and Canada, vol. 2, p. 1993, no. 4.
Cited as:
UPenn Ms. Codex 681.
Contributor:
Krumbhaar, E. B. (Edward Bell), 1882-1966, former owner.
OCLC:
155985382
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