Horalogium sapientiae.

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Seuse, Heinrich, 1295-1366.

Standardized Title:

Horologium sapientiae

Language:

Latin

Subjects (All):

Mysticism--Early works to 1800.

Mysticism.

Genre:

codices (bound manuscripts)

dialogues

Manuscripts, Latin.

Manuscripts, Renaissance.

Penn Provenance:

Signature (f. 1r): "Acquistato in Vienna dall' Antiquario della Biblioteca Imperiale in quella città e portato in dono al mio caro Cognato G. Ghizzi. Maggio. 1869 [sig.] Frangnani[?]."

Sold to James H. Reddan (Venice), 1896; sold in a collection of Reddan's books at auction at Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, 16 February 1905, lot 402.

Appears in Bernard Quaritch's catalog 699 (1952), no. 129.

Sold by E. P. Goldschmidt & Co. (London), 1955.

Physical Description:

194 leaves : paper, color illustrations ; 213 x 142 (152 x 90) mm bound to 220 x 140 mm

Place of Publication:

[Germany], [between 1400 and 1450]

Language Note:

Latin.

Summary:

Suso's Horologium sapientiae, a mystical work in two books (f. 2r-188v), with Cantica canticorum (Song of Songs) at the end (f. 189r-193v).

Notes:

Ms. codex.

Title from caption heading (f. 2r) and front cover.

Foliation: Paper, 194; [1-194]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.

Layout: Written in 27 long lines; frame-ruled in lead.

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

Decoration: 5-line initial in red and blue (f. 1r); rubricated headings, initials, and capitals throughout; manicule drawn in ink (f. 30v) and foliate design drawn in lead (f. 65v); simple decorated initials in red and black, some with foliate designs (f. 79v, 97v), and some with faces (f. 91v, 164v).

Binding: Contemporary dyed kid over wooden boards, clasps missing.

Origin: Written in Germany, in the first half of the 15th century (Zacour-Hirsch).

Cited in:

Described in Zacour, Norman P. and Hirsch, Rudolf. Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Libraries of the University of Pennsylvania to 1800 (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1965), p. 15 (Ms. Latin 69).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 709

Contains:

Cantica canticorum.

OCLC:

155985455