Details

Subject(s)

• Psalters—Germany [Browse]
• Books of hours—Germany [Browse]
• Catholic Church—Prayers and devotions [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Donor

Kane, Grenville, 1854-1943 [Browse]

Related name

Princeton University Library. Manuscript. Kane MS. 5. [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Morocco bindings [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• Psalters—Germany—15th century [Browse]
• Books of hours—Germany—15th century [Browse]
• Illuminated manuscripts—Germany—15th century [Browse]
• Miniatures (Illuminations)—Germany—15th century [Browse]
• Parchment [Browse]
• Textura [Browse]

Compiled/​Created

[between 1450 and 1475].

Summary note

Ms. Psalter-hours, written and illuminated in Germany, probably in Mainz.

Notes

• Layout: Parchment; 18 lines in one column; 143 x 105 (88 x 55) mm.
• Decoration: 1-line initials, alternately red and blue, at beginning of verses. 2-line gold initial with fine pen decoration in red, sometimes incorporating a face, at beginning of psalms. 9-line decorated initial, with partial foliate border, for prayer to Christ, Gratias tibi. 10-line decorated initial, with partial foliate border, for Litany. 15 decorated initials of 12 lines or more, with partial foliate borders, for the main psalms, Office of the Dead, Matins of the Hours of the Virgin, Prayers to the Virgin, "Saluto te," "O Domina mea," "Sancta Maria," Prayer to God, "Adonay domine deus," Suffrages to Barbara and Nicholas. 4 full-page miniature with foliate borders. The 16 large decorated initials are all based on designs found in the "Göttingen Model Book," with similar floreate patterns, checked backgrounds and coloring ideas.

Binding note

19th century blind-stamped morocco.

Language note

Latin

Script

Textura semiquadrata.

Provenance

Johann Friedrich Pflugk, his gift to Conrad Piggen, 31 March 1627 (Latin inscription f. 3r); Bateman of Middleton Hall, Derby (armorial bookplate inside cover); his sale (Sotheby's, London, 1893 May 23-31), lot no. 1312 on May 30 to Ellis; Herschel V. Jones (his bookplate); his sale (New York, 1919, II, lot no. 1070B); Grenville Kane (his bookplate)

Source acquisition

Gift of Grenville Kane.

Publications about

Lehmann-Haupt, Hellmut, ed. The Göttingen Model Book (Columbia, MO: 1972).

References

• De Ricci, v. 2, p. 1890 (no. 5)
• Neuenschwander, p. 13 (no. 32) and plate VII

Cite as

Kane MS. 5, Manuscripts Division, Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, Princeton University Library.

Place name(s)

Germany Mainz.

OCLC

54361776

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