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 233
(Philadelphia, United States, Free Library of Philadelphia, John Frederick Lewis Collection of European Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• https://know.freelibrary.org/Record/1598527
• deRicci: 37

Publisher

Free Library of Philadelphia

Language

Latin

Origin

Place

Belém, Portugal

Summary

This liturgical manuscript contains the Common of Saints (fols. 1r-65r), the Office of the Dead (fols. 65v-84r), an Antiphon for the Vigil of the Nativity (fol. 84v), and a Credo beginning "Patrem omnipotem" (fols. 85r-86v). It is thought to have been made, along with Free Library MSS Lewis E 221-234, for the Jerónimos Monastery in Belém, Portugal around the middle of the sixteenth century. This manuscript is missing a number of leaves and is suffering in places from significant flaking in the text. The texts themselves are lavishly illustrated with a number of black and colored initials with pen-work decoration. On fol. 65v, at the beginning of the Office of the Dead, is a large illuminated initial with a skull at the foot of a crucifix and a partial flower-strewn panel border. This manuscript was re-bound in the eighteenth century, and retains many of the metal fittings and one of the clasps added at that date. The front cover has, however, become completely detached from the rest of the book. Pasted inside the front cover is a paper folio from a seventeenth-century(?) liturgical manuscript with musical notation.

Notes

• Front cover detached from spine
   
• Folios missing before fols. 1 and 81, and after fol. 86
   
• Marginal annotations in contemporary and later scripts
   
• Text flaking in places
   
• Erased nineteenth-century(?) inscription on fol. 25v
   
• Staves extended or added in later hands on fols. 28r and 84v
   
• Parchment extensively repaired throughout
   
• Remains of paper and parchment marker tabs
   

Extent

86; 550 x 370 mm bound to 575 x 380 mm

Foliation

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

Collation

1 (4), 2-10 (8), 11 (7, +4), 12 (3, +1 +2 +3)

Support

Parchment

Catchwords

Original vertical catchwords, some in scrolls, on fols. 12v, 20v, 28v, 36v, 44v, 52v, 60v, 76v, and 83v

Binding

Eighteenth-century stamped dark brown calfskin; metal corners, bosses and clasps, some missing

Layout

Single column of twenty-one lines; lead point ruling; five-line staves in red ink; written area: 415 x 245 mm

Decoration

One illuminated initial (fol. 65v); numerous black and colored initials with pen-work decoration

Script

Gothic--rotunda

Provenance

• Almost certainly made for the Jerónimos Monastery near Lisbon; 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. 452-53, no. 37.

Keywords

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

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Common of saints, beginning imperfect
• fol. 65v — Office of the Dead
• fol. 84v — Antiphon for the Vigil of the Nativity
• fol. 85r — Credo, "Patrem omnipotem"

Decorations

• Inside front cover — Type-written description
• Inside front cover — Print catalog clipping
• Inside front cover — Bookplate, Free Library of Philadelphia
• Inside front cover — Pastedown from a seventeenth-century musical manuscript
• fol. 65v — Illuminated initial P, skull and crucifix
• fol. 65v — Partial flower-strewn bar border
• fol. 85r — Decorated initial P