Details

Standardized Title:

Book of hours. Selections

Subjects:

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

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Books of hours.
Fragments (object portions)
Illuminations.
Manuscripts, Latin.
Manuscripts, Medieval.
Prayers and devotions.
Prayers.
Devotional literature.

Language:

Latin.

Summary:

Six conjugate folios on which are written lessons from the Gospels of Luke (the Annunciation) and Mark (the Resurrection) and an abbreviated version of the Passion from the Gospel of John. These originally followed the Office of the Dead (Officium pro defunctis) in a book of hours, use of Chartres, now dispersed. These texts rarely appear in books of hours.

Contents:

1. f.1r-1v: [Psalm 141:6-8 and prayers from the Vigilie mortuorum]
2. f.2r-3v: Secundum Lucam [1:26-38]
3. f.3v-4v: Secundum Marcum [16:4-20]
4. f.4v-6r: Passio Domini nostri Ihesu Christi secundum Johannem [19:1-35]
5. f.6r-6v: Domine Ihesu Christe qui manus tuas et pedes tuos ...

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Foliation: Parchment, i (modern) + 6 + i (modern); 1⁶; [1-6], modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto.
Layout: Written in 12 long lines; frame-ruled in faint red ink, with double upper horizontal bounding line.
Script: Written in Gothic script, with versicles and responses in a slightly smaller Gothic script (f. 1r-1v).
Decoration: 4 2-line initials on gold grounds infilled with vine tendrils, with vine extensions in margins (f. 2r, 3v, 4v, 6r); 8 1-line initials in gold on colored grounds with short tendril extensions (f. 1r, 1v, 6r); rubrication in red.
Binding: Modern leather (Don Etherington, Summerfield, N.C.).
Origin: Written in western France, possibly Chartres or Poitiers, ca. 1390 (King Alfred's Notebook).

Penn Provenance:

Parent manuscript sold at auction at Sotheby's, 8 Jul. 2008, lot 28; broken in Germany (King Alfred's Notebook).
Sold by King Alfred's Notebook (Cayce, S.C.), cat. 10 (2012), no. 51.

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 1625

OCLC:

806140313