Collection ID: 0023 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Antiphonary, Dominican use

Other related names

• Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932, former owner (http://viaf.org/viaf/63874811/)
• Lewis, Anne Baker, former owner

Funders

• Council on Library and Information Resources

Call number

Lewis E 6
(Philadelphia, United States, Free Library of Philadelphia, John Frederick Lewis Collection of European Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• https://know.freelibrary.org/Record/1598991
• deRicci: 41

Publisher

Free Library of Philadelphia

Language

Latin

Origin

Place

Reims?, France
Italy

Summary

This manuscript is a fourteenth-century French Antiphonary, for Dominican use, in two parts. The first part is the Antiphonary, and the second part is Antiphons for a weekly cycle of feasts dedicated to the Virgin.

Notes

• Last nine folios are a later addition; "913" written in pencil on the verso of the front flyleaf; note of circa 1800 describing the manuscript in Italian on the recto of the back flyleaf; Sticker with the number "3249" written in ink in a nineteenth-century hand on the lower edge of the back cover
   
• The inscription in the margin of fol. 187r, which reads "S. Thom[as] Aquin[as]," was written in a later hand and marks the place in the liturgy that the feast of St. Thomas Aquinas (March 7) should appear; Thomas Aquinas was a Dominican saint, and that along with the inclusion of the feasts of saints such as Dominic, the founder of the Dominican order, help to establish that this book was used by Dominicans
   

Extent

329+i; 257 x 179 mm bound to 260 x 180 mm

Foliation

Modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto

Collation

Uncertain

Support

Parchment

Binding

Seventeenth-century black morocco with blind stamped decoration; One clasp and remains of another are still attached

Layout

Part I: lead point ruling; square notation on four-line red staves; first page has been sewn onto a new piece of parchment so that the verso of the page is no longer visible; sewn repairs throughout the manuscript (from the eighteenth or nineteenth century?); written area: 180 x 125 mm; Part II: lead point ruling; square notation on five-line red staves; red initials throughout; written area: 196 x 132 mm

Decoration

Illuminated initials with extenders throughout; red and blue flourished initials throughout

Script

Gothic--textualis quadrata

Gothic--rotunda

Provenance

• Manuscript was in Italy circa 1800; John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia; given by his widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1936
   

Related resources

• De Ricci, Seymour, with the assistance of W. J. Wilson, Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada, vol. 2 (New York,: H. W. Wilson, 1935-40), p. 2032, no. 41.
• Free Library of Philadelphia, A Descriptive Catalogue of the John Frederick Lewis Collection of European Manuscripts in the Free Library of Philadelphia, compiled by Edwin Wolf, 2nd, with an introduction by Dr. A.S.W. Rosenbach (Philadelphia: The Free Library, 1937), p. 9, no. 6.

Keywords

• Antiphonary
• 14th century
• French
• France
• Liturgy
• Illumination

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Table of contents

• fol. 1v — Temporale, from Advent to Pentecost
• fol. 141r — Common of the dedication of a church
• fol. 146r — Sanctorale (first page missing), beginning with Saint Andrew (November 30) and ending with Saint Catherine (November 25), includes feasts for Saint Dominic (August 4), and Saint Remigius (of Reims) (October 1)
• fol. 316r — Includes antiphons for the feasts of the Nativity of the Virgin (Monday), the Annunciation (Tuesday), the Nativity of Christ (Wednesday), the Purification (Thursday), and the Assumption (Friday); the beginning of the cycle is missing

Decorations

• Flyleaf 1 recto — Notations in ink
• fol. 3r — Illuminated initial A
• fol. 6v — Illuminated initial A
• fol. 12r — Illuminated initial A
• fol. 19r — Illuminated initial R
• fol. 27v — Illuminated initial H
• fol. 92v — Illuminated initial A
• fol. 106v — Illuminated initial P
• fol. 110v — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 116v — Illuminated initial B
• fol. 149r — Illuminated initial Q
• fol. 154v — Illuminated initial S
• fol. 158v — Illuminated initial U
• fol. 162r — Illuminated initial S
• fol. 166r — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 170r — Illuminated initial S
• fol. 174v — Illuminated initial S
• fol. 179r — Decorated initial A
• fol. 183r — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 187r — Marginal inscription, "S. Thom[as] Aquin[as]"; written in a later hand and marks the place in the liturgy that the feast of St. Thomas Aquinas (March 7) should appear
• fol. 187r — Illuminated initial M
• fol. 200r — Illuminated initial G
• fol. 209r — Illuminated initial Q
• fol. 219r — Illuminated initial M
• fol. 222v — Illuminated initial A
• fol. 238r — Illuminated initial H
• fol. 251r — Illuminated initial S
• fol. 270r — Illuminated initial E
• Flyleaf 1 recto — Notations in ink