Accession number:
MS M.1045
Title:
Concordantiae caritatis
Created:
Austria, third quarter of 15th cent.
Binding:
Early 19th-century diced Russia.
Credit:
Gift of Clara S. Peck, 1983.
Description:
264 leaves (1-2 columns, 27-42 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 350 x 265 mm
Provenance:
Fürstlich Liechtenstein'sche Fideikommiss-Bibliothek (Vienna, Austria); H.P. Kraus and W.H. Schab, New York; Clara S. Peck.
Notes:
Ms. picture book of Bible instruction; written and illuminated in Austria in the third quarter of the fifteenth century.
Decoration: 127 full-page nine-part miniatures, some unfinished; 119 full-page nine-part pen drawings, some with colored washes, 7 tables on 14 pages with pen-drawn decoration, 11 large pen drawings.
The illumination of M.1045 is unfinished. Some miniatures have not been completed.
Script:
textura
Language:
Latin and German
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