Book of hours : undetermined use : in German

Item Information

Title:
Book of hours : undetermined use : in German
Description:
[fol. 2] Ein annder guet gepet wenn man zu gots tisch geet/ Ou dem tisch dem.../...
Creator:
Catholic Church
Former owner:
Lefrancq, Adolphe, 1871-1951
Auctioneer:
Buch- und Kunstauktionshaus F. Zisska & R. Kistner
Former owner:
Bruce P. Ferrini (Firm)
Date:
[1450–1475]
Format:
Manuscripts
Books
Genre:
Illuminations
Manuscripts, Medieval--Germany
Manuscripts, German--Germany
Gothic scripts
Books of hours
Armorial bookplates
Codes (Provenance)
Blind tooled bindings
Blocked bindings
Bevelled edge boards
Location:
Boston Public Library
Rare Books Department
Collection (local):
Medieval and Early Renaissance Manuscripts
Places:
Germany
Austria
Extent:
87 leaves : parchment, ill. ; 113 x 87 (77 x 52) mm bound to 12 cm, in slipcase 13 cm
Permalink:
https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/9g5559626
Terms of Use:
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Place of origin:
[Germany or Austria]
Language:
German
Table of Contents:
1. fol. 1: blank, with added prayer (16th-century)
2. fol. 1v: full-page miniature: St. Margaret standing holding a small dragon on a leash.
3. fol. 2-55v: Hours of the Virgin, in German (each Hour ends with votive prayers to the Virgin and to St. John)
4. fol. 56-59v: St. Bernard on the Seven Last Words: Wie lesn das ains mals der teufl sandt Bernhart erschain und sagt.../ O gueng iesu gelaucht.../...ewigen lob.
5. fol. 60-62: (Prayer to the Virgin) Her nach steent ettliche gar guete gepet van unnser lieven frawen/ Aller heylig iste iungkfrau Maria...
6. fol. 62-68: (Prayer to the Virgin) Wer das hernach geschreiben gepet von unnser frawen.../
7. fol. 68v-73v: (Prayer to the Virgin) Ein annder gepet von unnser frawen/
8. fol. 73v-75: (Prayer to the Virgin) Her nach volgt ein gepet das haisst das gulldin kront gepet von unnser frawen/ Maria...
9. fol. 75-82: (Prayer to the Virgin) Ein annder gepet von unnser frawen/ O dir wiedige iungkfrau...
10. fol. 82v-86v: (Prayer to the Virgin) Maria ich mon und bitt dich...
11. fol. 86v: Her nach steent ettliche guete gepet von unnser frawen/ Maria du gwalltige.../...[ends imperfectly] widerpringin der sunder...
12. fol. 87: full-page miniature: St. Peter standing, holding his key.
13. fol. 87v: blank.
Notes:
Ms. codex.
Title devised by cataloger.
Bibliographic record created by BPL staff based primarily on description by Dr. Lisa Fagin Davis.
Origin: Written in E. Germany/Austria in the third quarter of the fifteenth century.
Notes (ownership):
Provenance: Early twentieth-century bookplate of Ad[olphe] Lefrancq, curator of the Musée de Valenciennes, inside front cover. Sold by Zisska & Kistner, Catalogue 22: Handschriften, Autographen, seltene Bucher, part I (25 October, 1993), nr. 3 (Schoenberg Database of Manuscripts 513).
Notes (acquisition):
Immediate source of acquisition: Purchased by BPL from Bruce Ferrini, 1993.
Notes (date):
This date is inferred.
Notes (object):
Secundo folio: [fol. 3] ...mich in deiner...
Collation: Parchment, fol. ii (paper) + ii + 87 + ii +i (paper) ; 1¹² 2⁸ 3¹² 4⁸ 5¹²⁺³ 6⁸ 7¹²⁻¹ 8¹⁸⁻⁴ (fol. 53-55 singletons; one cancel after fol. 73; final four leaves cancelled) ; modern arabic pencil foliation, upper outer corner each recto, skips the folio after 63 and so reaches 87 instead of 88.
Layout: 1 column, 15 lines. Bounding lines in red ink, doubled and full-length.
Script: Written in a gothic cursive in black ink with red rubrics.
Decoration: 2-line initials throughout in colors and gold with half- or three-quarter-foliate border, throughout (35 in all); six 7-line initials in similar style with half-border; full-page miniatures on fol. 1v (St. Margaret) and 87 (St. Peter).
Binding: Modern period style blind-stamped brown goatskin over boards, bevelled at center edges, gilt-fillet turn-ins, marbled paper pastedowns and conjugate flyleaves front and back, all edges gilt, board edges blind-tooled, spine blind-stamped in compartments; stored in cardboard slipcase covered with pastel marbled paper.
Notes (language):
In German.
Identifier:
06_01_018723
Call #:
RARE BKS MS q Med.242
MS q 2833 (no longer used)
Barcode:
39999090789197