Details

Subjects:

Catholic Church -- Prayers and devotions -- Early works to 1800.
Catholic Church.

Form/Genre:

Codices (bound manuscripts)
Books of hours.
Devotional calendars.
Manuscripts, Renaissance.
Prayers and devotions.
Prayers.
Devotional literature.

Language:

Latin, with weekday devotions in Italian (f. 129-133).

Summary:

Book of Hours of the Virgin Mary.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger; title in Zacour-Hirsch "Horae."
Foliation: Parchment, ii (paper) + 144 + i (paper); [1-144]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
Layout: Written in 14 long lines in brown and red ink.
Script: Written in a humanist hand with later additions to liturgical calendar in a different hand.
Decoration: Gold and blue used for initials; spaces left for initials that were never completed; illuminated vine and flower (f. 13r).
Binding: Contemporary calf, rebacked, split along front hinge, upper cover detached.
Origin: Written in Italy in the 16th century (Zacour-Hirsch).

Penn Provenance:

Formerly owned by John C. Jackson, 1849 (autograph, f. 1r).
Formerly owned by Rev. William Ely of Philadelphia, purchased in Florence 1875 (note, front endleaf).
Formerly owned by Jacob Riegel, 1934 (note, front endleaf).
Gift of Edwin H. Fetterolf, 1942 (bookplate, front endleaf).

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), p. 2 (Ms. Latin 6).

Publications about:

Herman, Nicholas. Making the Renaissance Manuscript: Discoveries from Philadelphia Libraries (exh. cat.). Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Libraries, 2020. 154 (cat. 38).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 688.

Contributor:

Jackson, John C., former owner.
Ely, William, Reverend, former owner.
Riegel, Jacob, former owner.
Fetterolf, Edwin H., former owner.

OCLC:

155985404

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