Details

Standardized Title:

Penitential Psalms. French

Subjects:

Francis, of Assisi, Saint, 1182-1226 -- Art.
Francis, of Assisi, Saint, 1182-1226.
Catholic Church -- Prayers and devotions -- French.
Catholic Church.
Vices in art.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Manuscripts, French.
Manuscripts, European.
Prayers and devotions.
Art.
Prayers.
Devotional literature.

Language:

French.

Summary:

Penitential psalms.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Collation: Paper, 46; 1² 2-6⁸ 7-8²; contemporary pagination in ink, upper outer corners, [vi], 1-81, [v]; gatherings 2-7 signed A-F, lower right recto in first half of gathering.
Layout: Written in 10 long lines.
Script: Written in roman letters by the calligrapher Colomiés (inscription, Colomiés scripsit, p. iii).
Decoration: Architectural title page with painted arms (p. iii); full-page decorative monogram painted in several colors (p. v); 7 vignettes of female figures with associated animals representing the seven deadly sins, with colored floral frames (l'orgueil, p. vi; l'avarice, p. 8; la luxure, p.18; l'envie, p. 33; la gourmandise, p. 47; la colere, p. 65; la paresse, p. 70); 7 3-line illuminated initials in gold over patterns or colored miniatures (p. 1, 8 (over miniature of garden), 18 (over miniature of rural landscape with city on horizon), 34 (over union of the charges on the shields of the arms on p. iii), 47 (over lion rampant), 65, 70 (over miniature of Saint Francis); 1-line initials and rubrics in red.
Binding: 18th-century panels of white satin over canvas, embroidered in colored silk, gold and silver wires and bands, sewn on a velvet cover; oval medallions of painted vellum, Virgin on upper cover mostly rubbed away, angel and child on lower cover; 2 metal clasps.
Origin: Written in France in 1681 (p. iii).

Penn Provenance:

Formerly owned by Marie-Anne Voisin, wife of Feydeau de Brou (arms on title page, p. ii; monogram, p. iv).
Sold at auction as part of the Trevulzio collection (Milan) at George Leavitt & Co. (New York), 6 Feb. 1888, lot 194.
Sold at auction as part of the library of J. B. Learmont (Montreal) at Anderson Galleries Inc. (New York), 5-6 March 1917, lot 396.
Gift of Gordon A. Block, Jr., in memory of his mother Reba Fleisher Block (bookplate inside upper cover), 1961.

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 1564.

Contributor:

Colomiés, scribe.
Voisin, Marie-Anne, former owner.
Learmont, J. B. (Joseph Bowles), 1839-1915, former owner.
Block, Gordon A., Jr., 1914-1973, former owner.

OCLC:

630710993

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