Penn in Hand: Selected Manuscripts

Catholic Church.

[Book of hours] [manuscript].

[France, between 1450 and 1500]

10 leaves : parchment, col. ill., 203 x 137 (115 x 70) mm. bound to 211 x 150 mm.

Fragment of a book of hours, French script, use of Sarum [?]. Misbound: includes Ad laudes (f. 1r-v, f. 7-10); Matins (f. 3r-6v), ending in the middle of the Te Deum; commemoration of St. Anne (f. 2r); commemoration of St. Catherine.

Ms. codex.

Title supplied by cataloger; title in Zacour-Hirsch, Horae.

Foliation: Parchment, iii (modern paper) + 10 + iii (modern paper); [1-10]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.

Layout: Written in 21 long lines; frame-ruled in ink.

Script: Written in a Gothic script by a single hand.

Decoration: Wide illuminated border and illuminated 6-line initial (f. 1r); wide decorative border and fully colored 6-line miniature of St. Catherine (f. 2v); initials decorated in gold, red, and blue throughout.

Binding: Modern red morocco, upper cover detached.

Origin: Written in France in the second half of the 15th century.

UPenn Ms. Codex 681.

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts University of Pennsylvania Ms. Codex 681