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Book of hours : Ms. Codex 1566
Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Abstract

Book of hours, use of Metz, with a calendar, the Hours of the Virgin, the Penitential Psalms and Litany, and the Office of the Dead. The calendar includes Saint Arnulf (11 October) and Saint Clement (23 November), both bishops of Metz, and the opening miniature of the Hours of the Virgin, showing Mary nursing Jesus (f. 13r), is particularly associated with Metz.

Physical Description

Support: parchment; Extent: 180 leaves : 105 x 71 (67 x 40) mm bound to 114 x 85 mm; Collation: Parchment, i (paper) + 180 + i (paper); 1¹² 2-5⁸ 6⁶ 7-10⁸ 11⁶ 12-15⁸ 16¹⁰ 17-18⁸ 19⁸ 20⁸(?) 21¹⁰ 22⁸; [1-180], modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto.

Layout

Written in 12 long lines; frame-ruled in faint ink.

Script

Written in a late Gothic book script.

Decoration

10 half-page miniatures (Virgin and Child, nursing, f. 13r; arrest of Christ, f. 29v; Christ before Caiaphas, f. 46r; scourging of Christ, f. 54v; Christ carrying the Cross, f. 60r; Crucifixion, f. 65r; descent from the Cross, f. 70v; entombment of Christ, f. 81r; Christ in majesty, f. 89r; funeral scene with priests and monks, f. 113r) with 4- or 5-line initials and branching foliate borders with ivy leaves; 2- and 3-line initials in color on cusped gold grounds with colored ivy stems forming partial text borders; 1-line initials in gold on pink and blue grounds with white penwork; entries in calendar in red and blue; rubrics in pale red ink.

For a full list of Decorations in this manuscript please see the Content and Decorations section by clicking on the [i] button in the top left corner of the image viewer above.

Notes

Title supplied by cataloger.

1. f.1r-12v: [Calendar]

2. f.13r-29r: [Matins]

3. f.29v-45v: [Lauds]

4. f.46r-54r: [Prime]

5. f.54v-59v: [Terce]

6. f.60r-64v: [Sext]

7. f.65r-70r: [None]

8. f.70v-80v: [Vespers]

9. f.81r-88r: [Compline]

10. f.89r-107r: [Penitential Psalms]

11. f.107r-112v: Letanie.

12. f.113r-179v: [Officium pro defunctis]

These are pages that we pulled aside that disrupted the flow of the manuscript reader. These may be bindings, inserts, bookmarks, and various other oddities.

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Keywords
14th century
French
France
Illumination
Devotion
Book of Hours
University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts

Place of Origin

Metz, France

Date

Probably written in Metz in the late 14th century.

Binding

Modern red velvet over pasteboards with metal clasp.

Language

Latin, with calendar in French (f. 1r-12v)

Provenance

Formerly owned by Achille Ratti (later Pope Pius XI); given to him by Pietro Larghi, heir of Ambrogio Roveda, 23 Apr. 1913 (inscription on verso of front endleaf).

Sold at auction at Sotheby's, 15 June 1959, lot 150, to Maggs Bros. (London); appears in Maggs cat. 866 (1959), no. 66.

Sold at auction at Sotheby's, 11 Dec. 1979, lot 65, to an unidentified owner who held it until 2010.

Sold at auction at Sotheby's, 6 Jul. 2010, lot 37.

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Place of Origin

Metz, France

Date

Probably written in Metz in the late 14th century.

Language

Latin, with calendar in French (f. 1r-12v)

Provenance

Formerly owned by Achille Ratti

Sold at auction at Sotheby's, 15 June 1959, lot 150, to Maggs Bros.

Sold at auction at Sotheby's, 11 Dec. 1979, lot 65, to an unidentified owner who held it until 2010.

Sold at auction at Sotheby's, 6 Jul. 2010, lot 37.

Manuscript Overview

Abstract

Book of hours, use of Metz, with a calendar, the Hours of the Virgin, the Penitential Psalms and Litany, and the Office of the Dead. The calendar includes Saint Arnulf (11 October) and Saint Clement (23 November), both bishops of Metz, and the opening miniature of the Hours of the Virgin, showing Mary nursing Jesus (f. 13r), is particularly associated with Metz.

Notes

Title supplied by cataloger.

1. f.1r-12v: [Calendar]

2. f.13r-29r: [Matins]

3. f.29v-45v: [Lauds]

4. f.46r-54r: [Prime]

5. f.54v-59v: [Terce]

6. f.60r-64v: [Sext]

7. f.65r-70r: [None]

8. f.70v-80v: [Vespers]

9. f.81r-88r: [Compline]

10. f.89r-107r: [Penitential Psalms]

11. f.107r-112v: Letanie.

12. f.113r-179v: [Officium pro defunctis]

Script note

Written in a late Gothic book script.

Decoration Note

10 half-page miniatures (Virgin and Child, nursing, f. 13r; arrest of Christ, f. 29v; Christ before Caiaphas, f. 46r; scourging of Christ, f. 54v; Christ carrying the Cross, f. 60r; Crucifixion, f. 65r; descent from the Cross, f. 70v; entombment of Christ, f. 81r; Christ in majesty, f. 89r; funeral scene with priests and monks, f. 113r) with 4- or 5-line initials and branching foliate borders with ivy leaves; 2- and 3-line initials in color on cusped gold grounds with colored ivy stems forming partial text borders; 1-line initials in gold on pink and blue grounds with white penwork; entries in calendar in red and blue; rubrics in pale red ink.

For a full list of Decorations in this manuscript please see the Content and Decorations section by clicking on the [i] button in the top left corner of the image viewer above.

References
Binding Images

These are pages that we pulled aside that disrupted the flow of the manuscript reader. These may be bindings, inserts, bookmarks, and various other oddities.

Spine

Keywords
14th century
French
France
Devotion
Book of Hours
University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts
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