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Title

Book of hours

Authors

• Catholic Church

Other related names

• Fetterolf, Edwin H, former owner
• Ely, William, Reverend, former owner
• Riegel, Jacob, former owner
• Jackson, John C, former owner

Call number

Ms. Codex 688
(3420 Walnut Street Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206, University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9924874763503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/78101447
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/2487476 https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3vt1gr02

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Latin, with weekday devotions in Italian (f. 129-133)

Origin

Date

between 1500 and 1599

Place

Italy

Summary

Book of Hours of the Virgin Mary.

Notes

• Title supplied by cataloger; title in Zacour-Hirsch "Horae."
   
• Ms. codex.
   

Extent

144 leaves : 111 x 79 (55 x 38) mm bound to 115 x 91 mm

Foliation

Parchment, ii (paper) + 144 + i (paper); [1-144]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.

Support

Parchment

Binding

Contemporary calf, rebacked, split along front hinge, upper cover detached.

Layout

Written in 14 long lines in brown and red ink.

Decoration

Gold and blue used for initials; spaces left for initials that were never completed; illuminated vine and flower (f. 13r).

Script

Written in a humanist hand with later additions to liturgical calendar in a different hand.

Provenance

• Gift of Edwin H. Fetterolf, 1942 (bookplate, front endleaf).
   
• Formerly owned by Rev. William Ely of Philadelphia, purchased in Florence 1875 (note, front endleaf).
   
• Formerly owned by Jacob Riegel, 1934 (note, front endleaf).
   
• Formerly owned by John C. Jackson, 1849 (autograph, f. 1r).
   

Subjects topical

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

Genres

• books of hours
• codices (bound manuscripts)
• devotional calendars
• Manuscripts, Renaissance
• Manuscripts, Italian--16th century
• Manuscripts, Latin--16th century

Keywords

• 16th century
• Book of Hours
• Italian
• Devotional
• Illumination
• Italy

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Calendar, f. 1r
• fol. 13r — Hours of the Virgin, f. 13r
• fol. 61r — Seven penitential psalms, f. 61r
• fol. 71v — Litanies, f. 71v
• fol. 82r — Office of the Holy Cross, f. 82r
• fol. 86r — Office of the Holy Spirit, f. 86r
• fol. 129r — Weekday devotions, f. 129r

Decorations

• fol. 1r — Owner note, f. 1r
• fol. 13r — Illuminated illustration, Flower and vine, f. 13r