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

Title

Antiphonary

Other related names

• John III, King of Portugal, 1502-1557, former owner (http://viaf.org/viaf/59093168)
• Mosteiro dos Jerónimos (Lisbon, Portugal), former owner (http://viaf.org/viaf/168781211)
• Karl W. Hiersemann (Firm), former owner (http://viaf.org/viaf/147835641)

Funders

• Council on Library and Information Resources

Call number

Lewis E 222
(Philadelphia, United States, Free Library of Philadelphia, John Frederick Lewis Collection of European Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• https://know.freelibrary.org/Record/1598525
• deRicci: 27

Publisher

Free Library of Philadelphia

Language

Latin

Origin

Place

Belém, Portugal

Summary

This antiphonary contains the lessons and other texts for the Divine Office to be read on regular Sundays and special Sunday festivals, beginning with the first Sunday of Advent. It is embellished with one large illuminated initial on fol. 1r, complete with an all'antica panel border, and numerous black and colored initials of varying heights with pen-work decoration. Throughout, the text has been corrected and annotated by later hands. In places, the text has suffered damage through flaking; elsewhere it has been deliberately erased. Many of the folios have been severely trimmed and some have been extensively repaired. There are remains of paper and parchment tabs in the outer margins of some folios, which perhaps served as place-markers for important texts. The original parchment of fols. 4 and 5 has been replaced entirely with paper, but the script appears to be roughly contemporary with the rest of the book so this may be an early repair. Along with Free Library Lewis E 221-234, this manuscript was given by King John III of Portugal to the Jerónimos Monastery in Belém, Portugal, in June 1548 (colophon on fol. 163v).

Notes

• The front cover is nearly detached
   
• Initial by same hand as that of Lewis E 221 and 223
   
• Some flaking of ink
   
• Remains of parchment and paper marker tabs throughout
   

Extent

163; 588 x 380 mm bound to 613 x 396 mm

Foliation

Early foliation in red ink, upper right recto; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto

Collation

1-18 (8), 19 (8, -5), 20 (8), 21 (4)

Support

Parchment

Catchwords

Contemporary vertical catchwords, some in scrolls, on fols. 8v, 24v, 32v, 40v, 48v, 56v, 64v, 72v, 80v, 88v, 96v, 104v, 112v, 120v, 128v, 136v, 144v, 151v, and 160v

Binding

Eighteenth-century; stamped dark brown calfskin; metal corners, bosses and clasps; edges stained red

Layout

One column of twenty lines; lead point ruling; written area: 440 x 260 mm

Decoration

One illuminated initial with an all'antica panel border (fol. 1r); numerous black and colored initials with pen-work decoration, some extending into marginal drawings of birds (fols. 114r and 134r)

Script

Gothic--rotunda

Colophon

Absolutum est preclarum hoc divinorum officiorum volumen, anno nostre salutis 1548 messe iunio, Rectore huius collegii fratrer blasio dolivença. Ceterum expensas ones suppenditavit invictissimus iusitanorum Rex ioannes tertius, quem christus optimus maximus diu in columen tueatur. Laus deo. [fol. 163v]

Provenance

• Gift of King John III to the College of St. Jerome in 1548 (see colophon, fol. 163v); Hiersemann of Leipzig (bookseller); bought by the Free Library in 1900
   

Related resources

• J. Thomson, Hither and Thither (Philadelphia, 1905), pp. 135-144.
• Supplement to the Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada, originated by C. U. Faye, continued and edited by W. H. Bond (New York: The Bibliographical Society of America, 1962), p. 452, no. 27.

Keywords

• Antiphonary
• 16th century
• Musical notation
• Notable binding
• Liturgy
• Portugal
• Portuguese

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Dominicale, beginning with the first Sunday of Advent and ending with the Feast of the Holy Innocents

Decorations

• Inside front cover — Type-written description
• Inside front cover — Print catalog clipping
• fol. 1r — Illuminated initial E
• fol. 1r — Partial all'antica panel border
• fol. 36r — Marginal drawing, cross
• fol. 114r — Marginal drawing, bird
• fol. 134r — Marginal drawing, bird