Accession number
MS M.1045
Object title
Concordantiae caritatis.
Display Date
third quarter of 15th cent.
Created
Austria, third quarter of 15th cent.
Binding
Previously in early 19th-century diced Russia; rebound in 2018 in medium brown calfskin with blind tooling, pastedowns and flyleaves in cream calf parchment, with alum-tawled goat skin hinges, hand-sewn silk endbands, a facsimile of Clara Peck's bookplate was adhered to the front pastedown.
Credit line
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. When the MS was rebound in 2018, fol. 35 was relocated to follow fol. 105.
The illumination of M.1045 is unfinished. Some miniatures have not been completed.
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. When the MS was rebound in 2018, fol. 35 was relocated to follow fol. 105.
The illumination of M.1045 is unfinished. Some miniatures have not been completed.
Script
textura
Language
Latin and German
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