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

Title

Antiphonary

Other related names

• 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 223
(Philadelphia, United States, Free Library of Philadelphia, John Frederick Lewis Collection of European Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• https://know.freelibrary.org/Record/1598526
• deRicci: 28

Publisher

Free Library of Philadelphia

Language

Latin

Origin

Place

Belém, Portugal

Summary

This antiphonary was made in Portugal in the middle of the sixteenth century, presumably for the Jerónimos Monastery in Belém near Lisbon (along with Free Library MSS Lewis E 221-234, all liturgical manuscripts of apparently the same origin; see colophons in 221 and 222). This book contains hymns and chants for the feasts of the temporale cycle, from the vigil for Christmas to Corpus Christi. The text is embellished with numerous black and colored initials of varying sizes with intricate pen-work decoration. There is also an historiated initial with the Holy Family (fol. 1r), a large illuminated initial Z (fol. 58v), and a small marginal drawing of a bird (fol. 182r). The text in this volume is accompanied by musical notation on five-line staves, done in red ink, which have in places been supplemented by additional notation in the margins or modified by later hands. On fols. 3r-4v and 25r-26r, the original words of the hymns have been covered up with paper strips inscribed with new lyrics in an early modern hand. This book was rebound in the eighteenth century, and its calfskin binding retains some of its original metal bosses and corners. There were once clasps to hold the book shut, but these are now missing.

Notes

• A single folio has been excised between fols. 9 and 10, but the text and original foliation are continuous so this does not appear to be later damage
   
• Fols. 3r-4v and 25r-26r contain paper strips with responses tipped in over the original text, perhaps to adapt the manuscript for the liturgical needs of a particular church
   
• Evidence of early damage and repairs to parchment
   
• Fols. 45 and 130 severely trimmed
   
• Occasional fragmentary remains of paper tabs, presumably markers of important texts
   
• The text has been annotated and corrected in a number of near-contemporary and later hands
   

Extent

193; 510 x 340 mm bound to 535 x 360 mm

Foliation

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

Collation

1 (11, +3), 2 (8), 3 (6), 4-6 (8), 7 (6), 8 (2), 9-25 (8)

Support

Parchment

Catchwords

Contemporary vertical catchwords, some in scrolls, on fols. 11v, 19v, 25v, 33v, 49v, 89v, 97v, and 153v

Binding

Eighteenth-century stamped dark brown calfskin; metal corners and bosses (some missing); remains of clasps; edges stained red

Layout

Single column of six lines with five-line staves in red ink; lead point ruling; written area: 395 x 230 mm

Decoration

One historiated initial, showing the Holy Family, on fol. 1r; one illuminated initial on fol. 58v; numerous black and colored initials with penwork decoration; marginal drawing, bird (fol. 182r)

Script

Gothic--rotunda

Provenance

• Probably gift of King John III to the College of St. Jerome in 1548 (along with Free Library MSS Lewis E 212-234, see colophons in first two volumes); Hiersemann of Leipzig (bookseller); bought by the Free Library in 1900; catalog entry and typed description pasted onto the inside front cover; bookplate of the Free Library of Philadelphia pasted on to inside front cover; Stamped "Geo. S. Pepper Fund" and "3079," bottom of fol. 1r
   

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. 28.

Keywords

• Antiphonary
• 16th century
• Musical notation
• Notable binding
• Liturgy
• Historiated initial
• Missing leaves
• Portugal
• Portuguese

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Temporale, beginning with the vigil for Christmas and ending with the feast of Corpus Christi

Decorations

• Inside front cover [insert recto — Type-written description
• Inside front cover [insert recto — Print catalog clipping
• fol. 1r — Historiated initial R, Holy family
• fol. 58v — Illuminated initial Z
• fol. 182r — Marginal drawing, bird