Collection ID: 0012 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Book of Hours, fragment

Other related names

• Mackenzie, William, 1758-1828, former owner (http://viaf.org/viaf/44186515)

Funders

• Council on Library and Information Resources

Call number

15
(Philadelphia, United States, Library Company)

Alternate identifiers

• deRicci: 15
• Call_Accession_number: Ms. 15 1863.D

Publisher

Library Company

Language

Latin

Origin

Place

Northern France

Summary

This manuscript is a twenty-three folio fragment of a fifteenth-century Book of Hours produced in Northern France. It contains fragments of the Seven Penitential Psalms, Hours of the Cross, Hours of the Holy Spirit, and Litany. The first five folios, all singletons, are severely and irregularly trimmed. Apart from three conjoined bifolia, the book consists of bound singletons. The manuscript was bequeathed to the Loganian Library (later the Library Company of Philadelphia) by William Mackenzie.

Extent

Ii+23+ii; 133 x 91 mm bound to 137 x 91 mm

Foliation

Unfoliated

Collation

1 (5, +1 +2 +3 +4 +5), 2 (3, +1 +2 +3), 3 (4), 4 (3, +1 +2 +3), 5 (4, +1 +4), 6 (4, +1 +2 +3 +4)

Support

Parchment

Catchwords

Regular horizontal catchwords at 13v and 21v

Binding

Nineteenth-century boards; gilt "M.S." and Library Company labels on spine

Layout

One column of fifteen lines, ruled in red; written area: 78 x 55 mm

Decoration

Four-line illuminated initials at 1r, 2r, and 3r

Script

Gothic--textualis

Provenance

• William Mackenzie, Philadelphia; bequeathed to the Loganian Library in 1828, later the Library Company of Philadelphia, according to the Loganian accession book
   

Keywords

• Book of Hours
• 15th century
• French
• Illumination
• Gothic
• France
• Devotion

Licenses

• Text

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• Text

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Seven Penitential Psalms, first page only
• fol. 2r — Hours of the Cross, Matins, first page only
• fol. 3r — Hours of the Cross, end only, and Hours of the Holy Spirit, first page only
• fol. 4r — Litany, fragment
• fol. 5r — Hours of the Holy Spirit, fragment
• fol. 6r — Hours of the Cross, fragment
• fol. 7r — Hours of the Holy Spirit, fragment
• fol. 8r — Litany, fragment
• fol. 9r — Litany, fragment
• fol. 13r — Seven Penitential Psalms, fragments

Decorations

• Inside front cover — Bookplate, William Mackenzie bequest to the Loganian Library
• fol. 1r — Illuminated initial
• fol. 2r — Illuminated initial
• fol. 3r — Illuminated initial