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Title

Horalogium sapientiae

Authors

• Seuse, Heinrich, 1295-1366

Call number

Ms. Codex 709
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9924875083503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/63615184
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/2487508

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Latin

Origin

Date

between 1400 and 1450

Place

Germany

Summary

Suso's Horologium sapientiae, a mystical work in two books (f. 2r-188v), with Cantica canticorum (Song of Songs) at the end (f. 189r-193v).

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from caption heading (f. 2r) and front cover.
   

Extent

194 leaves : 213 x 142 (152 x 90) mm. bound to 220 x 140 mm

Foliation

Paper, 194; [1-194]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary dyed kid over wooden boards, clasps missing.

Layout

Written in 27 long lines; frame-ruled in lead.

Decoration

5-line initial in red and blue (f. 1r); rubricated headings, initials, and capitals throughout; manicule drawn in ink (f. 30v) and foliate design drawn in lead (f. 65v); simple decorated initials in red and black, some with foliate designs (f. 79v, 97v), and some with faces (f. 91v, 164v).

Script

Written in a Gothic cursive script by a single hand.

Provenance

• Signature (f. 1r): "Acquistato in Vienna dall' Antiquario della Biblioteca Imperiale in quella città e portato in dono al mio caro Cognato G. Ghizzi. Maggio. 1869 [sig.] Frangnani[?]."
   
• Sold to James H. Reddan (Venice), 1896; sold in a collection of Reddan's books at auction at Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, 16 February 1905, lot 402.
   
• Appears in Bernard Quaritch's catalog 699 (1952), no. 129.
   
• Sold by E. P. Goldschmidt & Co. (London), 1955.
   

Subjects topical

• Mysticism--Early works to 1800

Genres

• Codices
• Dialogues
• Manuscripts, Latin--15th century
• Manuscripts, Renaissance

Keywords

• 15th century
• German
• Germany
• Mysticism

Licenses

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Decorations

• Inside front cover — Reused manuscript leaf, Inside front cover
• fol. 1r — Owner note, f. 1r
• fol. 2r — Decorated initial, Initial S, f. 2r
• fol. 30v — Manicule, f. 30v
• fol. 65v — Drawing, Foliate design, f. 65v
• fol. 72v — Decorated initial, Initial F, f. 72v
• fol. 79v — Decorated initial, Initial C, f. 79v
• fol. 91v — Decorated initial, Initial D, Face, f. 91v
• fol. 97v — Decorated initial, Initial I, f. 97v
• fol. 103v — Decorated initial, Initial S, f. 103v
• fol. 110r — Decorated initial, Initial D, f. 110r
• fol. 116v — Decorated initial, Initial S, f. 116v
• fol. 164r — Decorated initial, Initial A, f. 164r
• fol. 164v — Decorated initial, Initial O, Face, f. 164v
• fol. 189r — Decorated initial, Initial O, f. 189r