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

Title

Processional

Authors

• Catholic Church

Other related names

• Bragge, William, 1823-1884, former owner (https://viaf.org/viaf/238406190)
• Walker, T. Shadford, former owner (https://viaf.org/viaf/191146634453741932166)
• Maggs Bros., former owner (http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n82075696.html)
• Sessler, Charles, former owner (https://viaf.org/viaf/153640185)
• Lewis, John Frederick, former owner (http://viaf.org/viaf/63874811/)
• Lewis, Anne Baker, former owner

Funders

• Council on Library and Information Resources

Call number

Lewis E 7
(Philadelphia, United States, Free Library of Philadelphia, John Frederick Lewis Collection of European Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• deRicci: 45
• Leaves-of-gold: 45
• Burlington-Fine-Arts-Club-exhibition: 30
• Liverpool-Art-Club-exhibition: 56

Publisher

Free Library of Philadelphia

Language

Latin

Origin

Place

Paris, France

Summary

This manuscript is an early-sixteenth-century French processional made for the Dominican house of Poissy, north-west of Paris. It contains nine small square miniatures enclosed by gold frames.

Notes

• A related manuscript is the Poissy Antiphonal in Melbourne, State Library of Victoria, MS 096.1 R66A; see also Christie's, London, Valuable Printed Books & Manuscripts, incl. Natural History, 19 November 2003, lot 27 (Processional for the Use of the Dominican Sisters of St Louis, Poissy); and Christie's, London, Yates, Thompson and Bright: A Family of Bibliophiles, 16 July 2014, lot 25 (Processional for the Use of the Dominican Sisters of St Louis, Poissy)
   

Extent

141; 183 x 125 mm bound to 189 x 132 mm

Foliation

Foliated in modern pencil, upper right recto

Collation

1 (4, +1 +2 +3 +4), 2-18 (8), 19 (3, +1 +2 +3)

Support

Parchment

Binding

Seventeenth-century, French, olive morocco with gilt-wreaths on covers, gilt rosettes on spine, gilt edges

Layout

One column of twenty-one lines, ruled in red ink; square musical notation on four-line staves in red ink; written area: 102 x 62 mm

Decoration

Nine small square miniatures (eight-nine lines) within text block enclosed by full foliate border inhabited by insects or birds, three-sided spray borders inhabited by birds, insects, and frogs throughout, small decorated initials (one-to-four lines) throughout, and decorated line endings throughout, capitals highlighted in yellow ink; gold leaf or paint used in miniatures, borders, initials and line-endings

Script

Gothic--textualis quadrata

Provenance

• Dominican house at Poissy, France, sixteenth century; old inventory mark: "N. 67"; William Bragge collection (identified as such in 1874 Burlington Fine Arts Club exhibition); T. Shadford Walker Collection (identified as such in 1876 Liverpool Art Club exhibition); Bragge sale, Sotheby's, London, June 7 1876, lot 9; Quaritch (booksellers), London (Catalogue 31, June 30, 1876, cat. 30); Kemp sale, Sotheby's, London, May 6, 1909, lot 28; Maggs Bros. (booksellers), London; Charles Sessler (bookseller), Philadelphia; John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia, purchased 1910; given by his widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1936; on lower pastedown, in Lewis' hand is note "Bought 1910/Charles Sessler, Philadelphia, $400; see also Stoneman, 2016
   

Related resources

• Burlington Fine Arts Club, Illuminated Manuscripts Catalogue (London: Burlington Fine Arts Club, 1874), p. 6, cat. 30.
• Liverpool art club, Exhibition of illuminated manuscripts (Liverpool: Art Club, 1876), cat. 56.
• 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. 45.
• 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 Library, 1937), p. 10, no. 7.
• Huglo, Michel, "Les processionnaux de Poissy," in Rituels: Mélanges offerts à Pierre-Marie Gy, ed. Paul de Clerck and Eric Palazzo (Paris: Éditions du Cerf, 1990), p. 345 (article pp. 339-46).
• Naughton, Joan, "Manuscripts from the Dominican monastery of Saint-Louis de Poissy" (PhD diss., Department of Fine Arts, University of Melbourne, 1995), p. 281, figs. 100, 105, 116b, 121, 131
• Philadelphia Museum of Art, Leaves of Gold: Manuscript Illumination from Philadelphia Collections, edited by James R. Tanis (Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2001), pp. 134-136. no. 45.
• New York, New York Public Library, The Splendor of the Word: Medieval and Renaissance Illuminated Manuscripts at the New York Public Library, edited by Jonathan J.G. Alexander, James H. Marrow, and Lucy Freeman Sandler (New York: New York Public Library and Harvey Miller Publishers, 2005), p. 220 n.3.
• Stoneman, William P., "The Linked Collections of William Bragge (1823–1884) of Birmingham and Dr. Thomas Shadford Walker (1834–1885) of Liverpool," Manuscript Studies 1, no. 2 (2016), pp. 271-72 (article pp. 263-72).

Keywords

• 16th century
• French
• France
• Christian
• Illumination
• Illustration
• Miniature
• Processional
• Musical notation
• Liturgy

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Material for feasts of the Visitation, All Saints, and the Assumption of the Virgin
• fol. 4r — Processional
• fol. 139r — Material for feasts of the Visitation, All Saints, and the Assumption of the Virgin

Decorations

• fol. 4r — Miniature, Blessing of the candles
• fol. 4v — Illuminated initial L
• fol. 5v — Illuminated initial A
• fol. 6v — Illuminated initial A
• fol. 7v — Illuminated initial R
• fol. 8r — Illuminated initial H
• fol. 8v — Illuminated initial E
• fol. 9v — Illuminated initial E
• fol. 9v — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 10r — Illuminated initial O
• fol. 10v — Illuminated initial E
• fol. 14v — Illuminated initial I
• fol. 15v — Illuminated initial E
• fol. 16r — Miniature, Christ's Entry into Jerusalem
• fol. 18r — Illuminated initial P (x2)
• fol. 18v — Illuminated initial I
• fol. 19r — Illuminated initial C
• fol. 19r — Marginal drawing, moth
• fol. 21v — Illuminated initial C
• fol. 23r — Illuminated initial A
• fol. 24v — Illuminated initial G
• fol. 24v — Marginal drawing, bird
• fol. 25v — Illuminated initial I
• fol. 26v — Illuminated initial O
• fol. 26v — Illuminated initial R
• fol. 28v — Illuminated initial A
• fol. 28v — Marginal drawing, snail
• fol. 29r — Illuminated initial I
• fol. 29r — Marginal drawing, grasshopper
• fol. 30r — Illuminated initial L
• fol. 30r — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 30v — Illuminated initial C
• fol. 31v — Illuminated initial A
• fol. 31v — Marginal drawing, bird
• fol. 32r — Illuminated initial O
• fol. 32r — Illuminated initial E
• fol. 33r — Illuminated initial M
• fol. 33v — Illuminated initial S
• fol. 33v — Illuminated initial A
• fol. 35r — Illuminated initial E
• fol. 35r — Marginal drawing, bird
• fol. 35v — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 35v — Illuminated initial U
• fol. 36v — Illuminated initial S
• fol. 36v — Marginal drawing, bird
• fol. 37r — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 37v — Illuminated initial E
• fol. 38v — Illuminated initial M
• fol. 39r — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 39v — Illuminated initial U
• fol. 40v — Illuminated initial S
• fol. 40v — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 40v — Marginal drawing, bird
• fol. 41r — Illuminated initial S
• fol. 41v — Illuminated initial L
• fol. 42r — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 42r — Illuminated initial R
• fol. 43v — Illuminated initial I
• fol. 43v — Marginal drawing, bird
• fol. 44r — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 44r — Illuminated initial G
• fol. 44v — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 44v — Marginal drawing, insect
• fol. 45r — Illuminated initial H
• fol. 45r — Marginal drawing, bird
• fol. 45v — Illuminated initial A
• fol. 45v — Illuminated initial I
• fol. 45v — Marginal drawing, dragonfly
• fol. 46r — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 46r — Illuminated initial I
• fol. 46r — Marginal drawing, owl
• fol. 47r — Illuminated initial C
• fol. 47r — Illuminated initial O
• fol. 47r — Marginal drawing, snail
• fol. 47v — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 47v — Marginal drawing, moth
• fol. 48r — Illuminated initial C
• fol. 48r — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 48r — Marginal drawing, butterfly
• fol. 48v — Illuminated initial A
• fol. 48v — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 48v — Marginal drawing, bird
• fol. 49r — Illuminated initial I
• fol. 49r — Illuminated initial P
• fol. 49r — Marginal drawing, frog
• fol. 49v — Illuminated initial U
• fol. 49v — Marginal drawing, ladybug
• fol. 50r — Illuminated initial Q (x2)
• fol. 50r — Marginal drawing, bird
• fol. 50v — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 50v — Illuminated initial S
• fol. 50v — Marginal drawing, moth
• fol. 51r — Illuminated initial S
• fol. 51r — Marginal drawing, insect
• fol. 51v — Illuminated initial C
• fol. 51v — Marginal drawing, insect
• fol. 52r — Illuminated initial U
• fol. 52r — Marginal drawing, insect
• fol. 52v — Illuminated initial U
• fol. 52v — Illuminated initial A
• fol. 52v — Marginal drawing, bird
• fol. 53r — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 53r — Marginal drawing, bird
• fol. 54r — Illuminated initial P
• fol. 54r — Marginal drawing, insect
• fol. 54v — Illuminated initial S
• fol. 54v — Marginal drawing, snail
• fol. 55r — Illuminated initial U
• fol. 55r — Marginal drawing, butterfly
• fol. 55v — Illuminated initial M
• fol. 55v — Marginal drawing, bird
• fol. 56r — Illuminated initial I
• fol. 56r — Marginal drawing, insect
• fol. 56v — Illuminated initial I
• fol. 56v — Marginal drawing, frog
• fol. 57v — Illuminated initial M
• fol. 57v — Marginal drawing, insect
• fol. 58r — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 58r — Marginal drawing, ladybug
• fol. 58v — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 58v — Marginal drawing, bird
• fol. 59r — Illuminated initial U
• fol. 59r — Marginal drawing, insect
• fol. 59v — Illuminated initial C
• fol. 59v — Marginal drawing, ladybug
• fol. 60r — Illuminated initial M
• fol. 60r — Marginal drawing, butterfly
• fol. 60v — Illuminated initial A
• fol. 60v — Marginal drawing, moth
• fol. 61r — Illuminated initial I
• fol. 61r — Marginal drawing, peacock
• fol. 62r — Illuminated initial A
• fol. 62r — Marginal drawing, ladybug
• fol. 66v — Illuminated initial E
• fol. 66v — Marginal drawing, insect
• fol. 73r — Illuminated initial C
• fol. 73r — Marginal drawing, ladybug
• fol. 74v — Illuminated initial C
• fol. 74v — Marginal drawing, bird
• fol. 75r — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 75r — Marginal drawing, insect
• fol. 77v — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 77v — Illuminated initial E
• fol. 77v — Marginal drawing, bird
• fol. 82r — Illuminated initial P
• fol. 82r — Marginal drawing, ladybug
• fol. 82v — Illuminated initial A
• fol. 82v — Illuminated initial S
• fol. 82v — Marginal drawing, bird
• fol. 83r — Illuminated initial Q
• fol. 83r — Marginal drawing, insect
• fol. 83v — Illuminated initial Q
• fol. 83v — Marginal drawing, ladybug
• fol. 84r — Illuminated initial E
• fol. 84v — Illuminated initial U
• fol. 84v — Illuminated initial C
• fol. 84v — Marginal drawing, bird
• fol. 85r — Illuminated initial A
• fol. 85r — Marginal drawing, insect
• fol. 85v — Illuminated initial C
• fol. 85v — Marginal drawing, snail
• fol. 90r — Illuminated initial S
• fol. 90r — Marginal drawing, ladybug
• fol. 90v — Illuminated initial C
• fol. 90v — Marginal drawing, insect
• fol. 91r — Miniature, Resurrection
• fol. 92r — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 92v — Illuminated initial R
• fol. 92v — Marginal drawing, moth
• fol. 94v — Illuminated initial O
• fol. 94v — Marginal drawing, insect
• fol. 95v — Illuminated initial N
• fol. 95v — Marginal drawing, bird
• fol. 96v — Illuminated initial O
• fol. 96v — Marginal drawing, moth
• fol. 97r — Miniature, Elevation of the Host supported by two angels
• fol. 98r — Illuminated initial G
• fol. 98r — Marginal drawing, ladybug
• fol. 99r — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 99r — Marginal drawing, bird
• fol. 100r — Illuminated initial O
• fol. 100r — Marginal drawing, insect
• fol. 100v — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 100v — Marginal drawing, ladybug
• fol. 101r — Miniature, John the Baptist with the Lamb of God
• fol. 102r — Illuminated initial P
• fol. 102r — Marginal drawing, insect
• fol. 103r — Illuminated initial G
• fol. 103r — Marginal drawing, butterfly
• fol. 103v — Illuminated initial I
• fol. 103v — Marginal drawing, frog
• fol. 104v — Miniature, Saint Dominic with dog holding torch in mouth
• fol. 105v — Illuminated initial G
• fol. 105v — Marginal drawing, insect
• fol. 106v — Illuminated initial A
• fol. 106v — Marginal drawing, snail
• fol. 107r — Illuminated initial O
• fol. 107r — Marginal drawing, insect
• fol. 107v — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 107v — Marginal drawing
• fol. 108r — Miniature, Assumption of the Virgin
• fol. 109r — Illuminated initial S
• fol. 109r — Marginal drawing, bird
• fol. 109v — Illuminated initial Q
• fol. 109v — Marginal drawing, butterfly
• fol. 110v — Illuminated initial I
• fol. 110v — Marginal drawing, insect
• fol. 112r — Miniature, Saint Louis enthroned
• fol. 113r — Illuminated initial R
• fol. 113r — Marginal drawing, ladybug
• fol. 113v — Illuminated initial O
• fol. 113v — Marginal drawing, snail
• fol. 115r — Illuminated initial O
• fol. 115r — Marginal drawing, butterfly
• fol. 115v — Illuminated initial L
• fol. 115v — Marginal drawing, ladybug
• fol. 116r — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 116r — Marginal drawing, dragonfly
• fol. 116v — Miniature, Birth of the Virgin
• fol. 117v — Illuminated initial A
• fol. 117v — Marginal drawing, bird
• fol. 118v — Illuminated initial S
• fol. 118v — Marginal drawing, grasshopper
• fol. 119r — Illuminated initial S
• fol. 119r — Marginal drawing, ladybug
• fol. 119v — Illuminated initial S
• fol. 119v — Marginal drawing, insect
• fol. 120r — Illuminated initial C
• fol. 120r — Marginal drawing, ladybug
• fol. 121v — Illuminated initial O
• fol. 121v — Illuminated initial T
• fol. 121v — Marginal drawing, owl
• fol. 122v — Illuminated initial H
• fol. 122v — Marginal drawing, insect
• fol. 123v — Illuminated initial E
• fol. 123v — Marginal drawing, snail
• fol. 124r — Illuminated initial B
• fol. 124r — Marginal drawing, bird
• fol. 125r — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 125r — Marginal drawing, insect
• fol. 125v — Illuminated initial U
• fol. 125v — Marginal drawing, butterfly
• fol. 126r — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 126r — Marginal drawing, ladybug
• fol. 126v — Illuminated initial P
• fol. 126v — Illuminated initial A
• fol. 126v — Marginal drawing, bird
• fol. 127v — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 127v — Marginal drawing, butterfly
• fol. 128r — Illuminated initial A
• fol. 128r — Marginal drawing, ladybug
• fol. 128v — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 128v — Illuminated initial A
• fol. 128v — Marginal drawing, owl
• fol. 129r — Illuminated initial I
• fol. 129r — Marginal drawing, ladybug
• fol. 130r — Illuminated initial R
• fol. 130r — Marginal drawing, peacock
• fol. 134r — Illuminated initial O
• fol. 134r — Marginal drawing, bird
• fol. 136v — Illuminated initial P
• fol. 136v — Marginal drawing, insect
• fol. 138r — Illuminated initial O
• fol. 138r — Marginal drawing, snail
• fol. 138v — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 138v — Marginal drawing, bird