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Meditationes in duodecim primos psalmos Davidis prophet[a]e in honorem 12 apostolorum.

Format/Description:
Manuscript
73 leaves : paper, color illustrations ; 130 x 94 (91 x 68) mm bound to 137 x 95 mm
Production:
[Flanders], [1600?]
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Subjects:
Catholic Church -- Prayers and devotions -- Latin.
Catholic Church.
Apostles in art.
Form/Genre:
Codices.
Engravings (prints)
Illuminations.
Hybrid books.
Manuscripts, Latin.
Manuscripts, Renaissance.
Manuscripts, European.
Prayers and devotions.
Prayers.
Devotional literature.
Language:
Latin.
Summary:
Meditations with 14 engravings of the apostles by Adrian Collaert. Also includes one figurated and several smaller illuminated initials of the late 14th or early 15th century pasted in.
Notes:
Ms. codex.
Title from title page (f. 1r).
Incipit: Amantissime domine deus, unica spes animae meae ... (f. 2r)
Foliation: Paper, 73; [i, 1-68, iv]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
Layout: Written in 21-22 long lines; frame-ruled in lead.
Script: Written in a cursive script by a single hand.
Decoration: Includes 14 engravings by Adrian Collaert depicting standing figures of the apostles, with miniature scenes of their deaths or martyrdoms in the background; plus one pasted-in historiated initial in gold, blue, red, pink, green, and black depicting St. Gertrude of Nivelles in a nun's habit holding a book and crozier with four rats (f. 2r); and other pasted-in illuminated initials at the beginnings of the psalms (f. 7r, 11v, 17r, 22v, 27r, 32r, 38v, 43r, 48r, 54r, 58r, and 63r).
Binding: Contemporary stamped vellum, repaired on the front hinge, with leather ties. Moderate oxidation of the ink; paper is brown, dry, and crumbling at the edges.
Origin: Written in Flanders, ca. 1600 (Zacour-Hirsch).
Penn Provenance:
Formerly owned by E. B. Krumbhaar, 1910.
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 276).
Listed in De Ricci, Seymour. Census of medieval and Renaissance manuscripts in the United States and Canada, vol. 2, p. 1993, no. 2
Cited as:
UPenn Ms. Codex 682
Contributor:
Collaert, Adriaen, -1618, engraver.
Krumbhaar, E. B. (Edward Bell), 1882-1966, former owner.
OCLC:
155985385