Collection ID: 0002 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Authors

• Catholic Church

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9958099593503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/806140312
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5809959

Publisher

Language

Origin

Date

ca. 1390

Place

France

Summary

Six conjugate folios on which are written lessons from the Gospels of Luke (the Annunciation) and Mark (the Resurrection) and an abbreviated version of the Passion from the Gospel of John. These originally followed the Office of the Dead (Officium pro defunctis) in a book of hours, use of Chartres, now dispersed. These texts rarely appear in books of hours.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger.
   

Extent

Foliation

Support

Binding

Layout

Decoration

4 2-line initials on gold grounds infilled with vine tendrils, with vine extensions in margins (f. 2r, 3v, 4v, 6r); 8 1-line initials in gold on colored grounds with short tendril extensions (f. 1r, 1v, 6r); rubrication in red.

Script

Provenance

• Parent manuscript sold at auction at Sotheby's, 8 Jul. 2008, lot 28; broken in Germany (King Alfred's Notebook).
   
• Sold by King Alfred's Notebook (Cayce, S.C.), cat. 10 (2012), no. 51.
   

Subjects topical

• Catholic Church--Prayers and devotions--Early works to 1800

Genres

• Codices
• Books of hours
• Fragments
• Illuminations
• Manuscripts, Latin--14th century
• Manuscripts, Medieval

Keywords

• 14th century
• Book of Hours
• Fragment
• Illumination
• French
• Christian
• France
• Gospels
• Theology

Licenses

• Text

  These images and the content of Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts Ms. Codex 1625: Gospel lessons for the Office of the Dead 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/.

  URL

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Decorations

• fol. 1r — Illuminated initial, Initial I, f. 1r
• fol. 1r — Illuminated initial, Initial L, f. 1r
• fol. 1r — Illuminated initial, Initial E, f. 1r
• fol. 1v — Illuminated initial, Initial I, f. 1v
• fol. 1v — Illuminated initial, Initial D, f. 1v
• fol. 1v — Illuminated initial, Initial F, f. 1v
• fol. 2r — Illuminated initial, Initial I, f. 2r
• fol. 3v — Illuminated initial, Initial I, f. 3v
• fol. 4v — Illuminated initial, Initial I, f. 4v
• fol. 6r — Illuminated initial, Initial D, f. 6r
• fol. 6r — Illuminated initial, Initial E, f. 6r