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Title

Notated breviary

Authors

• Catholic Church

Call number

Oversize Ms. Codex 1233
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9943677233503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/235970965
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/4367723

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Latin

Origin

Date

ca. 1450

Place

Cologne

Summary

Breviary for use in the diocese of Cologne, probably in the Kölner Dom (cathedral). Made in the 15th century, it was used, annotated, and repaired through to the end of the 18th century. The breviary is preceded by a calendar in which the feasts of Saint Gereon and the Eleven Thousand Virgins, martyrs of Cologne, and of Saint Severin, an early bishop of Cologne, are written in red. The Sanctoral in the breviary itself includes offices for a number of saints associated with Cologne and for the Translation of the Three Kings, associated with relics kept on the high altar of the cathedral. The breviary includes foliation, headings, and annotations in 16th- through 18th-century hands, some of which were trimmed for the manuscript's current binding. It also includes burns (f. 23-24), marks from candle wax in night offices, and numerous parchment repairs to page edges. Chant tunes are written in Hufnagelschrift neumes on 4-line staves that are anachronistically ruled in color (brown, red, black, and yellow). Accompanying the manuscript is a device for marking several pages simultaneously, consisting of a small dowel with 6 cords knotted around it. The cords may have had decorative knotted ends originally, but all but one are now frayed.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger.
   

Extent

303 leaves : 468 x 322 (416 x 260) mm. bound to 508 x 378 mm

Collation

Parchment, iii (paper) + 294 + 9 (paper) + i (paper); 1⁴(-4) 2⁸ 3⁶ 4¹ 5-13¹² 14¹²(-6,-7) 15¹⁴(-4,-7,-8,-10,-11) 16¹²(-1,-2,-3) 17¹² 18¹⁰ 19-22¹² 23¹²(-11) 24-27¹² 28³ 29⁸ 30¹⁰ (+1, -10 pastedown); 16th- or 17th-century foliation in ink, [iii (paper), v], 1-13, 15-21, [22], 23-127, 130-139, 141, 143-145, 149-202, 205, 204-246, 246-287, [288], 289-296, [x], upper center recto; modern foliation in pencil, [iii, 302, i], upper right recto. References in this record are to modern foliation.

Support

Parchment (9 paper)

Binding

German 17th-century paneled pigskin tooled in blind, with brass cornerpieces, bosses, and two catches and clasps, one clasp detached (Christie's).

Layout

Written in 2 columns of 53 lines or 21 staves ruled in lead, with the lines of the staves ruled in brown, red, black, and yellow ink.

Decoration

Large puzzle initials in red and blue with red and lilac flourishing at the beginning of offices or texts (f. 6r, 12r, 22v, 37v, 88v, 106v, 110v, 157r, 270r, 280r). In text, 2-line red and blue initials alternate throughout; in chant, initials the height of one staff plus text are red, blue, or calligraphic with red.

Script

Written in a Gothic bookhand; chant tunes written in Hufnagelschrift neumes.

Provenance

• Sold at auction at Christie's, 4 June 2008, lot 44.
   

Subjects topical

• Kölner Dom
• Catholic Church--Liturgy--Texts
• Breviaries--Specimens
• Gregorian chants--Manuscripts

Genres

• Codices
• Annotations
• Breviaries
• Choirbooks
• Devotional calendars
• Gregorian chant
• Manuscripts, Latin--15th century
• Manuscripts, Renaissance

Keywords

• 15th century
• German
• Germany
• Paper
• Annotated
• Breviary
• Song book
• Devotion
• Christian
• Calendar

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Calendar, f. 1r
• fol. 6r — Invitatories for matins, prayers with benedictions, suffrages for principal feasts, f. 6r
• fol. 12r — Antiphons for first three Sundays in Advent, f. 12r
• fol. 19r — Notated breviary, f. 19r
• fol. 280r — Hymns, f. 280r
• fol. 287r — Festum purificationis Marie virginis, f. 287r
• fol. 290r — In festo visitacionis gloriose virginis Marie, f. 290r
• fol. 294v — Partial list of contents, f. 294v
• fol. 295r — Festo sanctissimi nominis Mariae, f. 295r
• fol. 296r — Festum sanctissimi nominis Iesu, f. 296r
• fol. 301r — In festo exaltationis sanctae crucis, f. 301r
• fol. 303v — Festo compassionis beatae Mariae virginis, f. 303v

Decorations

• fol. 6r — Puzzle initial, Initial U, f. 6r
• fol. 12r — Puzzle initial, Initial E, f. 12r
• fol. 22v — Puzzle initial, Initial P, f. 22v
• fol. 22v — Puzzle initial, Initial H, f. 22v
• fol. 37v — Puzzle initial, Initial O, f. 37v
• fol. 37v — Puzzle initial, Initial H, f. 37v
• fol. 88v — Puzzle initial, Initial A, f. 88v
• fol. 103r — Puzzle initial, Initial P, f. 103r
• fol. 106v — Puzzle initial, Initial U, f. 106v
• fol. 110v — Puzzle initial, Initial G, f. 110v
• fol. 157r — Puzzle initial, Initial U, f. 157r
• fol. 270r — Puzzle initial, Initial E, f. 270r
• fol. 280r — Puzzle initial, Initial O, f. 280r