[Book of hours] : [use of Metz].

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.

Date:

1375

Description:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the B. H. Breslauer Foundation, the Walter J. Miller Trust, the Lawrence J. Schoenberg & Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative, and the Rosengarten Family Fund.

Identifier:

9948091963503681; (OCoLC)ocn654868600; (OCoLC)654868600; (PU)4809196-penndb-Voyager

Language:

Latin; French

Provenance:

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.; 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.

Publisher:

[Metz, France], [between 1375 and 1399]

Relation:

http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/366278; http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/366323; Video orientation http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/2025251

Subject:

Illumination of books and manuscripts -- Specimens.; Illumination of books and manuscripts.; Manuscripts, Medieval.; Specimens.; Prayers and devotions.; books of hours.; devotional calendars.; illuminated manuscripts.; Manuscripts, Latin -- 14th century.; codices (bound manuscripts)

Form/Genre:

Manuscripts

Physical Description:

180 leaves : parchment, color illustrations; 105 x 71 (67 x 40) mm bound to 114 x 85 mm

Personal Name:

Pius XI, Pope, 1857-1939, former owner.

Corporate Name:

Catholic Church.

Rights:

https://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-US/1.0/?

Notes:

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.; Origin: Probably written in Metz in the late 14th century.; Binding: Modern red velvet over pasteboards with metal clasp.; 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.; Script: Written in a late Gothic book script.; Layout: Written in 12 long lines; frame-ruled in faint ink.; Title supplied by cataloger.; Latin, with calendar in French (f. 1r-12v).

Physical Location:

Ms. Codex 1566