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 234
(Philadelphia, United States, Free Library of Philadelphia, John Frederick Lewis Collection of European Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• https://know.freelibrary.org/Record/1598528
• deRicci: 38

Publisher

Free Library of Philadelphia

Language

Latin

Origin

Place

Belém, Portugal

Summary

This manuscript, along with Free Library MSS Lewis E 221-233, is associated with the Jerónimos Monastery in Belém, Portugal. The Jerónimos Monastery was a royal foundation under Manuel I, and was still under construction at the time this manuscript was made in the middle of the sixteenth century. This book contains an antiphonary for the temporale cycle from Advent to the Saturday of Septuagesima. Its text is decorated with three illuminated initials (fols. 1r, 34r, 77r) and numerous black and colored initials with pen-work decoration (two, on fols. 58v and 66v, have drawings of birds), three unfinished (ff. 115r, 116r, 117r). This manuscript was rebound in the eighteenth century – and retains its metal bosses, corners, and clasps – around which time numerous paper tabs were pasted at important points in the book. Some are inscribed in an eighteenth-century hand, others are clearly cut from printed books. The binding also incorporates fragments from another liturgical – perhaps Spanish – manuscript (the fragment inside the front cover seems to contain part of the text for the feast of Corpus Christi; the recto of the end flyleaf contains part of a hymn from a Spanish tradition [see Susana Zapke (ed.), Hispania Vetus: Musical Liturgical Manuscripts from Visigothic Origins to the Fraco-Romano Transition (9th-12th Centuries) (Bilbao: Fundación BBVA, 2007), p. 146]).

Notes

• Free Library MSS Lewis E 221-234 are all associated with the College of Saint Jerome, Belém, and were purchased from Hiersemann of Leipzig in 1900
   
• Text annotated and corrected by later hands, in red and black ink
   
• Remains of paper tabs throughout, some clearly cut from printed books, some with eighteenth-century(?) script
   
• Occasional erasures throughout
   
• Some text and musical notation flaking
   

Extent

117+i; 499 x 350 mm bound to 518 x 366 mm

Foliation

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

Collation

1 (7, +7), 2-14 (8), 15 (6)

Support

Parchment

Binding

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

Layout

Single column of twenty lines; five-line staves in red ink with musical notation; hard ruled; written area: 400 x 274 mm

Decoration

Three illuminated initials (fols. 1r, 34r, 77r); numerous black and colored initials with pen-work decoration; three unfinished initials (fols. 115r, 116r, 117r)

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. 453, no. 38.

Keywords

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

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Temporale, from Advent through Saturday of Septuagesima

Decorations

• Inside front cover — Paste-down from another liturgical manuscript
• Inside front cover — Bookplate, Free Library of Philadelphia
• fol. 1r — Illuminated initial E
• fol. 34r — Illuminated initial R
• fol. 58v — Marginal drawing, birds
• fol. 66v — Marginal drawing, bird
• fol. 77r — Illuminated initial A
• Flyleaf 1 recto — Bifolio from another liturgical manuscript
• Flyleaf 1 verso — Bifolio from another liturgical manuscript
• Inside back cover — Paste-down from another liturgical manuscript