Collection ID: 0012 | Metadata type: TEI

Title

Diurnal Antiphonal

Funders

• Council on Library and Information Resources

Call number

7
(Philadelphia, United States, Library Company, Library Company)

Alternate identifiers

• deRicci: 7

Publisher

Library Company

Language

Latin

Origin

Place

Italy

Summary

This large Diurnal Antiphonal, produced in Italy in the fifteenth century, contains Ferial material for the recitation of the Office from Prime through Vespers. Its final folio and a stub preceding it contain unrelated fragmentary material.

Notes

• Leaves count of 102 includes unlabeled and skipped folios, except for binding waste stub found before final leaf
   
• Fol. 94r is a fourteenth-century bifolio from a collection of pastoral material, including a sermon of Saint Augustine; the preceding stub is a fragment of late-thirteenth- or early-fourteenth-century Breviary
   

Extent

I+102+i; 579 x 383 mm bound to 610 x 412 mm

Foliation

Modern foliation in pencil (imperfect), upper right corner

Collation

1 (8), 2-9 (10), 10 (8), 11 (7, +5 +6 +7)

Support

Parchment

Catchwords

Catchwords in center of lower margin at folios: 7v, 16v, 25v, 35v, 44v, 53av, 61av, 71v, 81v, and 89v

Binding

Original wooden boards and leather with metal bosses and corner pieces, titulus placard on lower front cover: "Diurno"

Layout

One column of fifteen lines, ruled in ink; written area: 387 x 255 mm

Decoration

Large historiated initial with King David enthroned on fol. 23r; large initial presumably excised from fol. 53av; two-to-three-line penwork initials throughout

Script

Gothic--rotunda

Provenance

• Loganian Library, Philadelphia (later The Library Company of Philadelphia)
   

Related resources

• De Ricci, Seymour, with the assistance of W. J. Wilson, Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada, vol. 2 (New York: H. W. Wilson, 1935-40), p. 2104, no. 7.

Keywords

• Antiphonary
• 15th century
• Italian
• Historiated initial
• Penwork initial
• Musical notation
• Italy
• Devotion
• Liturgy

Licenses

• Text

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Diurnal Antiphonal
• Stub recto — Fragment of a Breviary
• fol. 93r — Damaged page, not original, pasted onto paper, containing hymn: "Salve Regina Mater..."
• Stub recto — Fragment of a Breviary
• fol. 94r — Bifolio fragment containing a sermon of Saint Augustine

Decorations

• Inside front cover — Bookplate, Loganian Library
• fol. 23r — Historiated initial D, King David enthroned
• Inside back cover — Bookplate, Loganian Library