Collection ID: 0031 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

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Other related names

• Andrews, William Loring, 1837-1920, former owner (http://viaf.org/viaf/71507405)
• Bishop, Cortlandt F. (Cortlandt Field), 1870-1935, former owner (http://viaf.org/viaf/4920254)
• Collins, Phillip S., former owner

Funders

• Council on Library and Information Resources

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Publisher

Language

Origin

Place

France

Summary

This manuscript pertains to the order of chivalry known as The Order of the Holy Spirit, created by Henry III in 1578. It presents scriptural texts, including the beginning of the Gospel of John and the account of Pentecost from Acts, as well as four full page illuminated miniatures. The first miniature represents Louis Gonzaga, the Duke of Nevers, receiving the Order, the first knight to do so. The second, third, and fourth images are Biblical scenes: the Crucifixion, Pentecost, and the Circumcision. The manuscript features illuminated borders throughout with four illuminated initials.

Notes

• Outer two front and end flyleaves are later parchment, third front flyleaf and first end flyleaf are modern paper
   

Extent

Foliation

Collation

Support

Binding

Layout

Decoration

Four full-page miniatures; four large illuminated initials in blue on gold grounds with botanical ornamentation; illuminated borders throughout, either with the dove and flames of the Holy Spirit or with faces and cornucopia

Script

Provenance

• William Loring Andrews, trustee and librarian of The Metropolitan Museum of Art and founding member of the Grolier Club (1937-1920); Cortlandt F. Bishop (1870-1935); Philip S. Collins; gift of Mrs. Philip S. Collins in memory of her husband, 1945
   

Keywords

• 16th century
• French
• Illumination
• Miniature
• France
• Devotion

Licenses

• Text

  These images and the content of Department of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs, 1945‑65‑19: Ordre du saint espirit are free of known copyright restrictions and in the public domain. See the Creative Commons Public Domain Mark page for usage details, http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/.

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• Text

  To the extent possible under law, Philadelphia Museum of Art has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to this metadata about Department of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs 1945‑65‑19: Ordre du saint espirit. This work is published from: United States. For a summary of CC0, see https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/. Legal code: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode.

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Table of contents

• fol. 2r — Initium Sancti Evangelii secundum Ioannem
• fol. 8r — Lectio Actuum Apostolorum
• fol. 8v — Sequentia Sancti Evangelii secundum Ioannem
• fol. 12r — Lectio Epistole Beati Pauli Apostoli ad Titum
• fol. 12r — Sequentia Sancti Evangelii secundum Lucam

Decorations

• Flyleaf 1 recto — Bookplate, Philip S. Collins
• fol. 1v — Full-page miniature, Initiation of Louis Gonzaga, Duke of Nevers, into the Order of the Holy Spirit
• fol. 2r — Illuminated initial I
• fol. 4r — Full-page miniature, Crucifixion
• fol. 6r — Full-page miniature, Pentecost
• fol. 8r — Illuminated initial I
• fol. 8v — Illuminated initial I
• fol. 10r — Full-page miniature, Circumcision
• fol. 12r — Illuminated initial C
• fol. 12r — Illuminated initial I
• Flyleaf 1 recto — Bookplate, Philip S. Collins