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- Description
- German Catholic prayer book dated 1774, written and decorated by Maria Theresia Laain, with devotions including morning and evening prayers; prayers to accompany the Mass; the seven Penitential Psalms (p. 77-93); litanies to the Holy Trinity (p. 147), the Name of Jesus (p. 167), Saint Joseph (p. 205), and All Saints (p. 232); prayers to saints including Mary, Joseph, Sebastian, Anthony of Padua, Apollonia, Francis, and Michael; and an index (Register, p. [276-281]). One leaf is detached (p. 233-234).
- Creator
- Laain, Maria Theresia (creator)
- Form
- manuscripts (documents)
- codices (bound manuscripts)
- Prayer books
- Manuscripts, European
- Date
- 1774
- Language
- German
- Subject
- Catholic Church -- Prayers and devotions -- Early works to 1800
- Extent
- 147 leaves : paper ; 190 x 145 (150 x 115) mm bound to 195 x 155 mm + 1 note.
- Notes
- Ms. codex.
- German.
- Title from title page (p. v).
- Collation: Paper, 147 leaves; 1⁸ (1 pasted to front flyleaf) 2-13⁸ 14⁸ (with leaves 1 and 2 pasted together) 15-18⁸ 19⁶ (6 pasted to end flyleaf); gatherings 3-19 signed in ink with an arabic numeral (some trimmed or missing), upper left first recto; [i-vi], 1-275, [276-288 (282-288 blank)], original pagination in ink, modern pagination in pencil, upper outer corners.
- Layout: Written in 19-20 long lines; double borders ruled in hard point or impressed and traced with ink; quarto format.
- Script: Written in German cursive, with headings and index in Fraktur and occasional names and the word Amen in roman or italic script (for example, p. 11-12, 232-234).
- Decoration: Decorations in red, green, and yellow ink throughout; decorative ownership page with sun motif (p. iii); decorative title page (p. v); 2 full-page floral illustrations (p. iv, vi); occasional tailpiece decorations (for example, p. 20, 74, 152, 261); headings in red, green, and yellow throughout; index written in red ink (p. [276-281]). A 19th-century print of Saint Peter by C. Dittmarsch of Stuttgart is laid in.
- Binding: Full morocco, borders and spine decorated in blind, including owner's name (Maria Theresia Laain) stamped in blind to one compartment of spine, marbled pastedowns and endpapers, headband loose and tailpiece loosening (Cadogan).
- Origin: Written in Ehrenbreitstein (fortress in Koblenz, Germany), 1774 (p. iii).
- Also listed in
- Penn Libraries Catalog
- Physical Location
- Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Ms. Codex 2339
- Provenance
- Formerly owned by Elisabetha Arrentin, 1817 (ownership note in ink, end flyleaf).
- Formerly owned by Friedrich Sulz, 1822 (ownership note in pencil, end flyleaf).
- Formerly owned by Josephine Biergann, by way of Koblenz, 1912 (ownership note in pencil, front flyelaf).
- Sold by Leo Cadogan Rare Books (London), 2018.
- Arrentin, Elisabetha, former owner.
- Sulz, Friedrich, former owner.
- Biergann, Josephine, former owner.
- Rights
- http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
- Resource Type
- Text
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