Office of the Feast of Corpus Christi (MS M.853).

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Accession number

MS M.853

Object title

Display Date

between 1404 and 1406.

Created

Vienna, Austria, between 1404 and 1406.

Binding

Austrian 18th-century pigskin over pasteboards, with blind armorial stamp of imperial arms: per pale Burgundy and Austria a crowned double-headed eagle, holding a sword in the sinister claw and a scepter in the dexter.

Credit line

Gift of Louis M. Rabinowitz, 1951.

Description

43 leaves (2 columns, 23 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 398 x 285 mm.

Provenance

Executed for Duke William (the Courteous) of Hapsburg (1370-1406) between his marriage in 1403 to Giovanna of Anjou and his death in 1406; corrected and emended in Vienna in 1495 (inscription on end-papers: hic liber castigatus et emendatus per quem dam connicum Wienn (ensem) 1495 et in generibus accentum satis(?) est distinctus simulque plurima inepta sunt deleta quorundam inserta; binding repaired by H. Clauer in 1718; ca. 1725 belonged to Emperor Charles VI (1685-1740, arms stamped on binding); Prince Franz-Joseph II von Liechtenstein of Vienna collection (no. N-1-19); purchased from the Liechtenstein Collection through H. P. Kraus; gift of Louis M. Rabinowitz in 1951.

Notes

Ms. Office of the Feast of Corpus Christi, a part of the Breviary attributed to Thomas Aquinas; written and illuminated in Vienna, Austria, between 1403 and 1406.
Decoration: 1 illuminated frontispiece, 1 historiated initial, armorial border decoration.
Artist: Nikolaus of Brünn.
Manuscripts from the same workshop are Vienna, ÖNB, Cod. 2783; Vienna, ÖNB, Cod. 2765, fols. 237-310; Klosterneuburg, CCI 37; Berlin, Staatsbibliothek, MS germ. fol. 122; Codex San Florianensis III, 205; Vienna, ÖNB, Cod. 381.

Script

textura

Language

Latin

Resources

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Century

15th century

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Classification

Manuscript

Department

Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts

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