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Title

Meditationes in duodecim primos psalmos Davidis prophetae in honorem 12 apostolorum

Other related names

• Collaert, Adriaen, d. 1618, engraver
• Krumbhaar, E. B. 1882-, former owner

Call number

Ms. Codex 682
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9924874683503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/63615135
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/2487468

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Latin

Origin

Date

ca. 1600

Place

Flanders

Summary

Meditations with 14 engravings of the apostles by Adrian Collaert. Also includes one figurated and several smaller illuminated initials of the late 14th or early 15th century pasted in.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from title page (f. 1r).
   
• Incipit: Amantissime domine deus, unica spes animae meae ... (f. 2r)
   

Extent

73 leaves : 130 x 94 (91 x 68) mm. bound to 137 x 95 mm

Foliation

Paper, 73; [i, 1-68, iv]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary stamped vellum, repaired on the front hinge, with leather ties. Moderate oxidation of the ink; paper is brown, dry, and crumbling at the edges.

Layout

Written in 21-22 long lines; frame-ruled in lead.

Decoration

Includes 14 engravings by Adrian Collaert depicting standing figures of the apostles, with miniature scenes of their deaths or martyrdoms in the background; plus one pasted-in historiated initial in gold, blue, red, pink, green, and black depicting St. Gertrude of Nivelles in a nun's habit holding a book and crozier with four rats (f. 2r); and other pasted-in illuminated initials at the beginnings of the psalms (f. 7r, 11v, 17r, 22v, 27r, 32r, 38v, 43r, 48r, 54r, 58r, and 63r).

Script

Written in a cursive script by a single hand.

Provenance

• Formerly owned by E. B. Krumbhaar, 1910.
   

Subjects topical

• Catholic Church--Prayers and devotions--Latin
• Apostles in art

Genres

• Codices
• Engravings
• Illuminations
• Hybrid books
• Manuscripts, Latin--16th century
• Manuscripts, Latin--17th century
• Manuscripts, Renaissance
• Manuscripts, European

Keywords

• Hybrid book
• 16th century
• 17th century
• Christian
• Flanders
• Paper
• Engraving

Licenses

• Text

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Decorations

• fol. 1v — Engraving, Christ, f. 1v
• fol. 2r — Historiated initial, Initial A, St. Gertrude with rats, f. 2r
• fol. 6r — Engraving, St. Peter, f. 6r
• fol. 7r — Illuminated initial, Initial B, f. 7r
• fol. 10r — Engraving, St. Andrew, f. 10r
• fol. 11v — Illuminated initial, Initial C, f. 11v
• fol. 15r — Engraving, St. James the Greater, f. 15r
• fol. 17r — Illuminated initial, Initial D, f. 17r
• fol. 21r — Engraving, St. John, f. 21r
• fol. 22v — Illuminated initial, Initial E, f. 23v
• fol. 26r — Engraving, St. Philip, f. 26r
• fol. 27r — Illuminated initial, Initial F, f. 27r
• fol. 31r — Engraving, St. Bartholomew, f. 31r
• fol. 32r — Illuminated initial, Initial G, f. 32r
• fol. 37r — Engraving, St. Matthew, f. 37r
• fol. 38v — Illuminated initial, Initial H, f. 38v
• fol. 42r — Engraving, St. Thomas, f. 42r
• fol. 43r — Illuminated initial, Initial I, f. 43r
• fol. 47r — Engraving, St. James the Lesser, f. 47r
• fol. 48r — Illuminated initial, Initial L, f. 48r
• fol. 52r — Engraving, St. Simon, f. 52r
• fol. 54r — Illuminated initial, Initial M, f. 54r
• fol. 57r — Engraving, St. Jude, f. 57r
• fol. 58r — Illuminated initial, Initial N, f. 58r
• fol. 62r — Engraving, St. Matthias, f. 62r
• fol. 63r — Illuminated initial, Initial O, f. 63r
• fol. 67r — Engraving, St. Paul, f. 67r