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Title

Noted Missal, 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 158
(Philadelphia, United States, Free Library of Philadelphia, John Frederick Lewis Collection of European Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• deRicci: 31

Publisher

Free Library of Philadelphia

Language

Latin

Origin

Place

France, Paris

Summary

This noted Dominican Missal, likely produced in Paris, contains thirteen historiated initials by the Johannes Grusch workshop. A series of prayers for Charles I, King of Sicily (r. 1265-1285) and his family indicate an early Southern Italian or Sicilian ownership.

Notes

• The liturgy of the missal follows the Dominican liturgy established by Humbert of Romans, Master General of the Dominican Order (1254-1263); text bears resemblance to London, British Library, Add. Ms. 23935; several entries in calendar suggest Dominican usage, including Saint Thomas Aquinas [January 28 (translation) and March 7], Peter Martyr [April 29], Dominic [May 24 (translation), and August 5), and anniversary of Dominican Order [September 5]; suggesting continued Dominican use are prayers added in the fourteenth century to Saint Louis of Toulouse (fol. 433v)
   
• Although Robert Branner ("The Johannes Grusch Atelier and the Continental Origins of the William of Devon Painter," Art Bulletin 54, 1 [1972], p. 30; idem., Manuscript Painting in Paris During the Reign of Saint Louis: A Study of Styles [Berkeley: University of California Press, 1977], p. 82) dated the manuscript to 1262-1265 on stylistic grounds, there are no internal elements that confirm this dating
   
• An abbreviated liturgy for the Feast of Corpus Christi is inscribed in the lower margin of fol. 229r in an early-fourteenth-century Italian hand
   

Extent

Iii+434+i; 200 x 130 mm bound to 210 x 146 mm

Foliation

Early (perhaps original) foliation in red ink, top left verso; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto (references in this record are to modern foliation in pencil)

Collation

1 (6), 2 (8), 3 (8, -1), 4-5 (10), 6 (12), 7-11 (10), 12 (12), 13-31 (8), 32 (6, -1), 33 (12), 34-43 (8), 44 (9, +1), 45 (6, -1), 46-52 (8)

Support

Parchment

Binding

Brown levant morocco, gilt frame sides, gilt edges, chased clasps, by Kerr and Richardson of Glasgow, lower clasp inscribed with initials A.J., inscribed in gold on spine: "Missal. Ordinis fratrum praedicatorum s. dominici. Secolo xiii."; nineteenth century

Layout

Two columns of thirty lines, lead point ruling; four-line red musical staves with square notation throughout; thirteen historiated initials with short marginal extensions; seventeen decorated initials with interlaced strap design; penwork initials in red and blue with long marginal extensions throughout; written area: 136 x 88 mm

Decoration

Thirteen historiated initials by the Johannes Grusch workshop: David before the Lord (fol. 24r), Nativity (fol. 42r), Crucifixion (fol. 183r), Resurrection (fol. 186r), Ascension (fol. 208v), Pentecost (fol. 216r), Holy Trinity (fol. 227r), Dedication of the Church (fol. 269v), Saint Andrew being nailed to the cross (fol. 273r), Annunciation (fol. 293v), Dormition of the Virgin (fol. 329v), Nativity of the Virgin (fol. 334v), and All Saints (fol. 347r)

Script

Gothic--textualis

The missal contains writing by two contemporary French scribes; the main portion of the text was executed by first scribe; fols. 20v-21v were executed by a second scribe; several entries in the calendar and the inscriptions on fols. 183r and 184r were executed after 1309 by an Italian scribe; the Prayers of Saint Ambrose (fols. 431v-432v) were added by an Italian scribe later in the thirteenth or the fourteenth century; additional prayers (fols. 433v-434v) were written by various scribes from the fourteenth to the seventeenth centuries

Provenance

• Italy (Sicily?), late thirteenth-seventeenth centuries; John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia; given by his widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1936; Two identical prayers in the margins indicate an early Italian provenance and provide a terminus ante quem date for production; inscriptions in lower margins of fols. 183r (partially erased) and 184r in contemporary Italian rotunda are a repeated prayer for Charles I, King of Sicily (r. 1265-1285), and for his wife, children, parents and deceased friends: "Ora p[ro] d[omi]no karolo p[rim]o rege sicilie et d[omi]na beatrice ux[ore] eor[um]que lib[er]is p[ar]entib[us] et amicis defunctis;" all the children of Charles and his wife Beatrice had died by 1309, dating the inscriptions to after this period; prayers and additions to calendar, in fifteenth and seventeenth centuries, by Italian scribes
   

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. 2030, no. 31.
• 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. 170.
• Free Library of Philadelphia, Saints, Scribes, and Scholars: An Exhibition of Illuminated Manuscripts and Early Printed Books from the Collections of the Rare Book Department of the Free Library of Philadelphia, compiled by Satoko I. Parker, Walter A. Frankel, and Marie E. Korey (Philadelphia: The Free Library of Philadelphia, 1988), p. 13.
• Branner, Robert, "The Johannes Grusch Atelier and the Continental Origins of the William of Devon Painter," Art Bulletin 54, no. 1 (1972): p. 30 (article pp. 24–30).
• Branner, Robert, Manuscript Painting in Paris During the Reign of Saint Louis: A Study of Styles. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1977), p. 82.

Keywords

• 13th century
• Missal
• Historiated initial
• France
• French
• Italy
• Italian
• Gothic
• Liturgy

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Graded calendar, Dominican use
• fol. 7r — Introductory material, including comments on singing and practical information about the conduct of office
• fol. 20v — Prayers for the blessing of the salt and water
• fol. 22r — Prayers sung before the Mass, including the Asperges and the Vidi aquam
• fol. 24r — Temporale, first part, beginning with first Sunday in Advent
• fol. 183r — Order of the Mass
• fol. 186r — Temporale, continued
• fol. 273r — Sanctorale
• fol. 353r — Common of Saints
• fol. 400r — Kyrie eleison, Gloria in excelsis, Agnus dei, Sanctus
• fol. 406v — Sequentiary
• fol. 431v — Prayers of Saint Ambrose, attributed to John of Fécamp (d. 1079)
• fol. 433v — Prayers written in several later hands: a prayer for sailors, the offices of Saint Louis, the translation of Mary Magdalene and the translation of Saint Nicholas to Bari

Decorations

• fol. 24r — Historiated initial A, David before the Lord
• fol. 24r — Four line decorated initial C
• fol. 42r — Historiated initial P, Nativity
• fol. 183r — Historiated initial T, Crucifixion
• fol. 186r — Historiated initial R, Resurrection
• fol. 208v — Historiated initial V, Ascension
• fol. 216r — Historiated initial P, Pentecost
• fol. 217v — Four line decorated initial C
• fol. 227r — Historiated initial B, Holy Trinity
• fol. 269v — Historiated initial T, Dedication of a Church
• fol. 273r — Historiated initial D, Saint Andrew nailed to the cross
• fol. 287r — Four line decorated initial O
• fol. 293v — Historiated initial D, Annunciation
• fol. 324r — Four line decorated initial D
• fol. 329v — Historiated initial G, Dormition of the Virgin
• fol. 334v — Historiated initial G, Nativity of the Virgin
• fol. 347r — Historiated initial G, All Saints