COLLECTION NAME:
Medieval Document Collection
Record
Identifier:
exwsms174_bk
Manuscript Identifier:
MS 174
Title:
Leaf from a Prayer Book featuring Saint Agnes holding her attribute
Alternative Title:
Prayer Book Leaf
Alternative Title:
MS 174
Incipit:
[rubric] De sancta agnete virginis et martiris oratio [text] O gemma pudicicie virginitatis speculum
Origin Date:
between 1425 and 1475
Origin Location:
Germany
Description:
Single leaf from a devotional Prayer Book featuring St. Agnes holding a lamb enclosed in an illuminated initial O. Text opens with a prayer to St. Agnes for the Feast of St. Agnes, celebrated on January 21. The leaf is estimated to have been created between 1440 and 1460.
Provenance:
"The illumination on recto is in the style named Nonnenarbeiten (see J. Hamburger, Nuns as Artists, the Visual Culture of a Medieval Convent, 1997), and associated with predominantly female monastic decoration of their own devotional books." --from dealer description on inside cover of the frame.
Extent:
1 leaf
Subject:
Agnes, Saint, Martyr
Subject:
Catholic Church--Prayers and devotions--Early works to 1800
Subject:
Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)
Subject:
Prayer books
Subject:
Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)--Germany--15th century
Subject:
Manuscripts, Medieval--Michigan--Kalamazoo
Language:
lat
Dimensions:
120 x 84 mm (framed 160 x 110 mm)
Material:
parchment
Foliation:
f. 1r-v
Binding:
Housed in a mat frame (160 x 110 mm).
Decoration Description:
1 column of 14-15 lines ruled in dry point. 6-line historiated and illuminated initial painting of St. Agnes of Rome with a simple white face and rosy cheeks, holding a lamb possibly in the Nonnenarbeiten style, which is associated with predominately female monastic decoration of their devotional books. Rubrication in red. On verso, a 2-line initial O decorated in red with faded brown pen florishes.
Description of Hands:
Written in Gothic Textualis script.
Is Part Of:
Medieval Document Collection
Is Part Of:
Manuscript 174, Western Michigan University Special Collections
Publisher:
Western Michigan University
Date-Issued:
2019
Type:
Text
Format:
image/jp2
Is Referenced By:
Hamburger, Jeffrey F. "Nuns as Artists, the Visual Culture of a Medieval Convent." University of California Press: 1997.
Rights Statement:
Rights Status:
No Copyright - United States
Access Rights:
Digital reproduction published by Western Michigan University and made available for private study, scholarship or research use under applicable U.S. Law. Access to digital reproductions provided by Special Collections at Zhang Legacy Collections Center, Western Michigan University.