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Title

Texts for the Commemorative Office of the Virgin Mary and notated Office of the Dead

Authors

• Catholic Church

Other related names

• Keysser, Georg, scribe

Call number

Ms. Codex 1589
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9949366533503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122543418
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/4936653

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Latin

Origin

Date

1596

Place

Elchingen

Summary

Benedictine manuscript containing texts for Matins and Lauds from the Commemorative Office of the Virgin. This version of the Office was said most often on Saturday in place of the usual Office of the day. Also contains the Office of the Dead accompanied by musical notation for the chants. The manuscript once had leather finding tabs flush to the edge of the leaves, all but one (f. 96) of which have been torn out (for example, f. 1, 7, 69).

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger.
   
• Music: Contains Hufnagelschrift notation on 5-line staves in the Office of the Dead (f. 97r-107v), with later additions in square notation on 4-line staves (f. 108r-108v).
   

Extent

131 leaves : 204 x 140 (166 x 107) mm. bound to 205 x 145 mm

Collation

Paper, 131; 1⁶(-1) 2¹⁰ 3⁶ 4¹⁰ 5⁶ 6¹⁰ 7-9⁶ 10¹⁰(-1) 11-13⁸ 14⁸(+1) 15⁸(-2) 16¹⁰ 17⁸; contemporary foliation in red ink, upper center recto, 1-5, 7, 6, 8-53, 53--66, [67], 68-76, 78-94, [i], 95-96 (=f. 2-98); modern foliation in pencil, [v, 1-126], upper right recto. References in this record are to modern foliation. Catchwords on almost every page, lower right recto or verso.

Support

Paper

Binding

Original 16th-century vellum over pasteboard, gold-stamped with stamps of the Annunciation (upper cover) and the Nativity (lower cover) and gold-tooled borders; remnants of 2 pairs of ties.

Layout

Written in 2 columns of 27 lines (f. 2r-95v) and 2 columns of 6 staves (f. 97v-107v); frame-ruled in red ink with text ruled in lead.

Decoration

3 full-page borders in colored inks with architectural columns (f. 1v, 54v, 69v); 5-line initial and full scrollwork border in colored inks (f. 2r); 8-line initial in colored inks and first words in display uncials in red ink (f. 84v); 2-line initial in 2 colors and knotwork design in colored inks (f. 96r); 1- to 3-line initials in various colors throughout; rubrication, foliation, and frame-ruling in red ink.

Script

Written in a German Gothic script by Georg Keysser (f. 96r).

Provenance

• Held in the abbey library no later than 1802, when the monastery was secularized and the contents of its library sent to Munich.
   
• Sold by Les Enluminures (Paris and Chicago), 2011.
   

Subjects topical

• Catholic Church--Prayers and devotions--Early works to 1800
• Catholic Church--Liturgy--Texts
• Benedictines--Liturgy
• Gregorian chants--Manuscripts

Genres

• Codices
• Choirbooks
• Gregorian chant
• Finding tabs
• Manuscripts, Latin--16th century
• Manuscripts, Renaissance

Keywords

• 16th century
• Song book
• Liturgy
• Christian
• Paper
• German
• Germany

Licenses

• Text

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Table of contents

• fol. 2r — Antiphona et responsoria et lectiones de commune beate Marie semper virginis..., f. 2r
• fol. 54v — Lectiones infra tricesimum [assumptionis] beate Mariae semper virginis, f. 54v
• fol. 70r — De commune beatae mariae semper virginis post octavas epiphaniae usque ad purificationem, f. 70r
• fol. 84v — Psalmos omnes tam ad mattutinas quam ad laudes, ymnos, cantica, Te Deum laudamus, omnia secundum ordinem, f. 84v
• fol. 97r — Kyrie eleison, f. 97r
• fol. 97v — Antiphona ad Placebo, ad vigilias, et ad laudes, una cum responsoriis Officium pro defunctis, f. 97v
• fol. 108r — In die depositionis ingrediendo ecclesia, f. 108r

Decorations

• fol. 1v — Decorated border, f. 1v
• fol. 2r — Decorated border, f. 2r
• fol. 2r — Decorated initial, Initial I, f. 2r
• fol. 4r — Decorated initial, Initial P, f. 4r
• fol. 4r — Decorated initial, Initial A, f. 4r
• fol. 4v — Decorated initial, Initial A, f. 4v
• fol. 4v — Decorated initial, Initial S, f. 4v
• fol. 4v — Decorated initial, Initial A, f. 4v
• fol. 7r — Decorated initial, Initial S, f. 7r
• fol. 9v — Decorated initial, Initial S, f. 9v
• fol. 12r — Decorated initial, Initial D, f. 12r
• fol. 14v — Decorated initial, Initial B, f. 14v
• fol. 17r — Decorated initial, Initial D, f. 17r
• fol. 19v — Decorated initial, Initial E, f. 19v
• fol. 22r — Decorated initial, Initial A, f. 22r
• fol. 22r — Decorated initial, Initial N, f. 22v
• fol. 24v — Decorated initial, Initial S, f. 24v
• fol. 27r — Decorated initial, Initial B, f. 27r
• fol. 29v — Decorated initial, Initial S, f. 29
• fol. 32r — Decorated initial, Initial E, f. 32r
• fol. 32r — Decorated initial, Initial N, f. 32r
• fol. 34v — Decorated initial, Initial D, f. 34v
• fol. 37v — Decorated initial, Initial S, f. 37v
• fol. 40r — Decorated initial, Initial S, f. 40r
• fol. 42r — Decorated initial, Initial E, f. 42r
• fol. 45r — Decorated initial, Initial S, f. 45r
• fol. 47v — Decorated initial, Initial S, f. 47v
• fol. 47v — Decorated initial, Initial O, f. 47v
• fol. 54v — Decorated initial, Initial I, f. 54v
• fol. 54v — Decorated border, f. 54v
• fol. 55r — Decorated initial, Initial L, f. 55r
• fol. 58v — Decorated initial, Initial S, f. 58v
• fol. 61r — Decorated initial, Initial S, f. 61r
• fol. 69v — Decorated border, f. 69v
• fol. 70r — Decorated initial, Initial D, f. 70r
• fol. 72v — Decorated initial, Initial S, f. 72v
• fol. 72v — Decorated initial, Initial N, f. 72v
• fol. 75r — Decorated initial, Initial E, f. 75r
• fol. 75r — Decorated initial, Initial I, f. 75r
• fol. 78r — Decorated initial, Initial S, f. 78r
• fol. 84v — Decorated initial, Initial I, f. 84r
• fol. 84v — Decorated initial, Initial D, f. 84v
• fol. 84v — Decorated initial, Initial D, f. 84v
• fol. 84v — Decorated initial, Initial U, f. 84v
• fol. 85r — Decorated initial, Initial Q, f. 85r
• fol. 85v — Decorated initial, Initial A, f. 85v
• fol. 86r — Decorated initial, Initial S, f. 86r
• fol. 86r — Decorated initial, Initial I, f. 86r
• fol. 86r — Decorated initial, Initial D, f. 86r
• fol. 86r — Decorated initial, Initial C, f. 86r
• fol. 86v — Decorated initial, Initial D, f. 86v
• fol. 88v — Decorated initial, Initial B, f. 88v
• fol. 88v — Decorated initial, Initial F, f. 86v
• fol. 90v — Decorated initial, Initial A, f. 90v
• fol. 90v — Decorated initial, Initial L, f. 90v
• fol. 91r — Decorated initial, Initial T, f. 91r
• fol. 91v — Decorated initial, Initial C, f. 91v
• fol. 92r — Decorated initial, Initial F, f. 92r
• fol. 92r — Decorated initial, Initial S, f. 92r
• fol. 92v — Decorated initial, Initial I, f. 92v
• fol. 93r — Decorated initial, Initial B, f. 93r
• fol. 93v — Decorated initial, Initial L, f. 93v
• fol. 94r — Decorated initial, Initial C, f. 94r
• fol. 94r — Decorated initial, Initial L, f. 92r
• fol. 95r — Decorated initial, Initial S, f. 95r
• fol. 96r — Decorated initial, Initial E, f. 96r
• fol. 96r — Decorated endpiece, f. 96r
• fol. 97r — Musical notation, f. 97r
• fol. 97v — Musical notation, f. 97v
• fol. 97v — Decorated initial, Initial P, f. 97r
• fol. 98v — Decorated initial, Initial D, f. 98v
• fol. 99r — Decorated initial, Initial C, f. 99r
• fol. 99v — Decorated initial, Initial Q, f. 99v
• fol. 100r — Decorated initial, Initial D, f. 100r
• fol. 101r — Decorated initial, Initial I, f. 101r
• fol. 101r — Decorated initial, Initial M, f. 101r
• fol. 101v — Decorated initial, Initial H, f. 102r
• fol. 102r — Decorated initial, Initial R, f. 102r
• fol. 103r — Decorated initial, Initial C, f. 103r
• fol. 103v — Decorated initial, Initial P, f. 103v
• fol. 104r — Decorated initial, Initial D, f. 104r
• fol. 105r — Decorated initial, Initial L, f. 105r
• fol. 105v — Decorated initial, Initial L, f. 105v
• fol. 106v — Decorated initial, Initial E, f. 106v
• fol. 107r — Decorated initial, Initial E, f. 107r
• fol. 108r — Musical notation, f. 108r