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Title

Prayer book and processional

Authors

• Catholic Church

Call number

Ms. Codex 141
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9929754103503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/83801126
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/2975410

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Latin, with a few leaves in German

Origin

Date

ca. 1450

Place

Germany

Summary

Seven penitential psalms, litanies, vigilia mortuorum, antiphons; chants for Palm Sunday through Easter (f. 132-181); prayers (in a later hand, in margin), e.g., S. Anna Catharina Hellermans, ora pro me; prayer in German (f. 181v-182r); chants for the Ascension and Purification.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger; other title, Rituale praedicatorum, from Zacour-Hirsch Catalogue.
   
• Musical notation: 4-line staves in red ink; square notes; a few leaves of musical notation in brown ink (staves and notes) in a later hand.
   
• Incipit: Domine ne in furore [Ps. 6].
   
• Imperfect; leaves between f. 10-11, 50-51, 118-119 known to be wanting.
   
• Volume appears to have been in use in a women's monastic community, names of nuns written on several leaves (f. 93v-94r, 125v-126r).
   

Extent

205 leaves : 93 x 70 mm. bound to 100 x 77 mm

Foliation

Parchment, i (paper) + 205 + v (paper); [1-205]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.

Support

Parchment

Binding

18th-century German calf, with 1 clasp intact, detached clasp stored with manuscript in mylar sleeve.

Layout

Written in 12-14 long lines, with musical notation written in 5 long lines; some pages ruled in ink; some prickings visible.

Decoration

Historiated initial D with woman and angel with gold illuminated halos, identified by Debra Taylor Cashion as the Ecstasy of Mary Magdalene (f. 1r). Large decorated initial D in blue and red (f. 22r); face in brown initial (f. 184r), decorated initials in red and undecorated initials in blue throughout manuscript.

Script

Written in a Gothic script by several hands, with marginal notations and later additions, including a few leaves of music in a later hand, and the beginning of the Gospel according to John in a later cursive hand on paper endleaves.

Provenance

• Unidentified signature on paper endleaf at the beginning.
   
• Sold by Anton Düssel, 1949.
   

Subjects topical

• Catholic Church--Prayers and devotions--Early works to 1800
• Catholic Church--Liturgy--Texts
• Illumination of books and manuscripts--Specimens
• Gregorian chants
• Monastic and religious life of women--Liturgy

Genres

• Antiphonaries
• Codices
• Illuminations
• Manuscripts, Medieval
• Manuscripts, Renaissance
• Manuscripts, Latin--15th century

Keywords

• 15th century
• Antiphonary
• Illumination
• Christian
• Liturgy
• Germany

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Seven penitential psalms, f. 1r
• fol. 15r — Litanies, f. 15r
• fol. 22r — Office for the Dead, f. 22r
• fol. 73r — Litanies, f. 73r

Decorations

• fol. 1r — Historiated initial, Initial D, Ecstasy of Mary Magdalene, f. 1r
• fol. 22r — Puzzle initial, Initial D, f. 22r
• fol. 93v — Owner note, f. 93v
• fol. 93v — Musical notation, f. 93v
• fol. 94r — Owner note, f. 94r
• fol. 96v — Musical notation, f. 96v
• fol. 98r — Musical notation, f. 98r
• fol. 99v — Musical notation, f. 99v
• fol. 110v — Musical notation, f. 110v
• fol. 113v — Musical notation, f. 113v
• fol. 124r — Owner note, Musical notation, f. 124r
• fol. 124v — Owner note, Musical notation, f. 124v
• fol. 125r — Musical notation, f. 125r
• fol. 125v — Owner note, f. 125v
• fol. 126r — Owner note, f. 126r
• fol. 137r — Musical notation, f. 137r
• fol. 153v — Musical notation, f. 153v
• fol. 183v — Owner note, German text, f. 183v
• fol. 184r — Owner note, Musical notation, f. 184r
• fol. 184r — Decorated initial, Initial O, Face, f. 184r
• fol. 187r — Musical notation, f. 187r
• fol. 192v — Musical notation, f. 192v
• fol. 199r — Musical notation, f. 199r
• fol. 205r — Owner note, Musical notation, f. 205r