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Horae de Sancta Katherina Ms. Codex 674
Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts
Manuscript Overview
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Abstract

Hours of St. Catherine, incomplete at the end, where prayers to St. Barbara, an Office of St. Barbara, and the Passion account from the Gospel of Matthew (partial) are added in a second hand.

Physical Description

Support: parchment; Extent: 28 leaves : 122 x 90 (70 x 54) mm. bound to 132 x 101 mm; Foliation: Parchment, iii (modern paper) + 28 + ii (modern paper); [1-28]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.

Layout

Written in 19 long lines; ruled in ink, prickings visible.

Script

Written in a single Gothic book hand with added texts (f. 24v-25r, 27r-28v) and some corrections in a hybrid script written by a second hand.

Decoration

2-line and 3-line Illuminated initials in gold (worn off in places), red, green, blue, and pink; rubrics in red.

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

Ms. codex.

Title from Zacour-Hirsch Catalogue.

Incipit: Incipiunt hore de lauda Katherina edite...Text: Deprecare regem celi...

Probably hours of St. Katherine of Alexandria (f. 13v): "O beata Katherina babylonis."

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
15th century
Book of Hours
Illumination
Christian
Germany
University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts

Place of Origin

Germany

Date

Written in Germany in the early 15th century (Zacour-Hirsch). 19th-century description tipped onto front endleaf has date ca. 1390.

Binding

18th- or 19th-century morocco, front endleaves loose.

Language

Latin

Provenance

Formerly owned by Ernest F. Salmon, 1892 (autograph, front endleaf).

E. B. Krumbhaar, 1910 (autograph, front endleaf; stamp with winged crown, f. 1r).

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Place of Origin

Germany

Date

Written in Germany in the early 15th century (Zacour-Hirsch). 19th-century description tipped onto front endleaf has date ca. 1390.

Language

Latin

Provenance

Formerly owned by Ernest F. Salmon, 1892

E. B. Krumbhaar, 1910

Manuscript Overview

Abstract

Hours of St. Catherine, incomplete at the end, where prayers to St. Barbara, an Office of St. Barbara, and the Passion account from the Gospel of Matthew (partial) are added in a second hand.

Notes

Ms. codex.

Title from Zacour-Hirsch Catalogue.

Incipit: Incipiunt hore de lauda Katherina edite...Text: Deprecare regem celi...

Probably hours of St. Katherine of Alexandria (f. 13v): "O beata Katherina babylonis."

Script note

Written in a single Gothic book hand with added texts (f. 24v-25r, 27r-28v) and some corrections in a hybrid script written by a second hand.

Decoration Note

2-line and 3-line Illuminated initials in gold (worn off in places), red, green, blue, and pink; rubrics in red.

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
15th century
Book of Hours
Christian
Germany
University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts
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