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Title

Horae de Sancta Katherina

Other related names

• Krumbhaar, E. B. 1882-1966, former owner

Call number

Ms. Codex 674
(3420 Walnut Street Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9924874603503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/63615115
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/2487460

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Latin

Origin

Date

between 1400 and 1425

Place

Germany

Summary

Hours of St. Catherine, incomplete at the end, where prayers to St. Barbara, an Office of St. Barbara, and the Passion account from the Gospel of Matthew (partial) are added in a second hand.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from Zacour-Hirsch Catalogue.
   
• Incipit: Incipiunt hore de lauda Katherina edite...Text: Deprecare regem celi...
   
• Probably hours of St. Katherine of Alexandria (f. 13v): "O beata Katherina babylonis."
   

Extent

28 leaves : 122 x 90 (70 x 54) mm. bound to 132 x 101 mm

Foliation

Parchment, iii (modern paper) + 28 + ii (modern paper); [1-28]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.

Support

Parchment

Binding

18th- or 19th-century morocco, front endleaves loose.

Layout

Written in 19 long lines; ruled in ink, prickings visible.

Decoration

2-line and 3-line Illuminated initials in gold (worn off in places), red, green, blue, and pink; rubrics in red.

Script

Written in a single Gothic book hand with added texts (f. 24v-25r, 27r-28v) and some corrections in a hybrid script written by a second hand.

Provenance

• Formerly owned by Ernest F. Salmon, 1892 (autograph, front endleaf).
   
• E. B. Krumbhaar, 1910 (autograph, front endleaf; stamp with winged crown, f. 1r).
   

Subjects topical

• Catholic Church--Prayers and devotions--Early works to 1800
• Catholic Church--Liturgy--Texts
• Christian saints--Prayers and devotions

Genres

• Books of hours
• Codices
• Illuminations
• Manuscripts, Latin--15th century
• Manuscripts, Renaissance

Keywords

• 15th century
• Book of Hours
• Illumination
• Christian
• Germany

Licenses

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Decorations

• fol. 1r — Illuminated heading, f. 1r
• fol. 1r — Illuminated initial, Initial C, f. 1r
• fol. 1r — Illuminated initial, Initial A, f. 1r
• fol. 1v — Illuminated initial, Initial A, f. 1v
• fol. 2r — Illuminated initial, Initial E, f. 2r
• fol. 2v — Illuminated initial, Initial G, f. 2v
• fol. 3r — Illuminated initial, Initial O, f. 3r
• fol. 3v — Illuminated initial, Initial S, f. 3v
• fol. 4v — Illuminated initial, Initial G, f. 4v
• fol. 5r — Illuminated initial, Initial G, f. 5r
• fol. 5v — Illuminated initial, Initial A, f. 5v
• fol. 6r — Illuminated initial, Initial A, f. 6r
• fol. 6v — Illuminated initial, Initial A, f. 6v
• fol. 7r — Illuminated initial, Initial A, f. 7r
• fol. 7v — Illuminated initial, Initial A, f. 7v
• fol. 8r — Illuminated initial, Initial B, f. 8r
• fol. 8r — Illuminated initial, Initial A, f. 8r
• fol. 8r — Erasure, f. 8r
• fol. 9r — Illuminated initial, Initial O, f. 9r
• fol. 9v — Illuminated initial, Initial S, f. 9v
• fol. 11r — Illuminated initial, Initial I, f. 11r
• fol. 11v — Illuminated initial, Initial A, f. 11v
• fol. 12r — Illuminated initial, Initial S, f. 12r
• fol. 13v — Illuminated initial, Initial A, f. 13v
• fol. 15r — Illuminated initial, Initial S, f. 15r
• fol. 16r — Illuminated initial, Initial S, f. 16r
• fol. 16v — Illuminated initial, Initial S, f. 16v
• fol. 17v — Illuminated initial, Initial S, f. 17v
• fol. 18v — Illuminated initial, Initial S, f. 18v
• fol. 19r — Illuminated initial, Initial S, f. 19r
• fol. 20r — Illuminated initial, Initial S, f. 20r
• fol. 21r — Illuminated initial, Initial O, f. 21r
• fol. 22v — Decorated initial, Initial G, f. 22v
• fol. 23r — Illuminated initial, Initial U, f. 23r
• fol. 25v — Decorated initial, Initial M, f. 25v
• fol. 25v — Decorated initial, Initial D, f. 25v
• fol. 26r — Decorated initial, Initial A, f. 26r
• fol. 26v — Decorated initial, Initial D, f. 26v