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Title

Choir psalter gatherings

Authors

• Catholic Church

Other related names

• Schoenberg, Lawrence J, former owner

Call number

Ms. Oversize 33
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9942700553503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/212382174
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/4270055

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Latin

Origin

Date

15--

Place

Spain

Summary

A section (5 gatherings) from the middle of a choir psalter containing a number of psalms (part of 67 and all of 71, 74-75, 80, 83-86, 88, 90-91, 94-98, and 102-103) in order for liturgical use, followed by the first half of the hymn Te Deum with square notation in black on 5-line staves in red. Some water damage at the top of most leaves and some repairs, with replaced text in another hand, at the bottom of leaves.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger.
   

Extent

40 leaves : 690 x 510 (625 x 370) mm

Collation

Parchment, 40; 1¹ 2-4⁸ 5⁸(-8); modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto.

Support

Parchment

Binding

Gatherings stitched to 6 bands but without binding; some of the penwork was trimmed for binding.

Layout

Psalms written in 15 long lines; Te Deum written in 5 lines with musical notation; psalm texts originally ruled in lead, ornamental double bounding lines and ruling in red ink added after the text was written.

Script

Written in a rounded Gothic script.

Provenance

• Sold at auction at Sotheby's, 5 December 1978, lot 59, to Lawrence J. Schoenberg; LJS 291 in the Schoenberg collection.
   
• Gift of Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2009.
   

Subjects topical

• Catholic Church--Liturgy
• Catholic Church--Liturgy--Texts--Manuscripts
• Psalters--Specimens
• Gregorian chants--Manuscripts

Genres

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

Keywords

• 16th century
• Spain
• Spanish
• Song book
• Psalter
• Liturgy
• Christian

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Psalter fragment, f. 1r
• fol. 38v — Te Deum fragment, f. 38v