Collection ID: 0023 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Processional; Astronomical Text binding fragment

Authors

• Catholic Church (http://viaf.org/viaf/130782063)

Other related names

• Ess, Leander van 1772-1847, former owner (http://viaf.org/viaf/34580474)
• Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872, former owner (http://viaf.org/viaf/73979081)
• Lewis, John Frederick, 1860-1932, former owner (http://viaf.org/viaf/63874811)
• Lewis, Anne Baker, former owner

Funders

• Council on Library and Information Resources

Call number

Lewis E 9
(Philadelphia, Free Library of Philadelphia, John Frederick Lewis Collection of European Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• deRicci: 42

Publisher

Free Library of Philadelphia

Language

Latin

Origin

Place

Germany

Summary

This manuscript is a late fifteenth-century processional with a binding fragment of an earlier astrological treatise pasted to the back board.

Notes

• Collation note: 2 stubs after fol. 12, 1 stub before fol. 43
   
• Text and music from fol. 49v to the end were added at a later date
   
• Thirteenth-century binding fragment pasted to inner front board; Tenth-century binding fragment of an astrological treatise pasted to inner back board
   

Extent

51+i; 125 x 86 mm bound to 130 x 90 mm

Foliation

Modern foliation in pencil, upper corner recto

Collation

1 (12, +1 +2), 2-3 (12), 4 (6, -6), 5 (9, -3 +9)

Support

Parchment

Binding

Contemporary red pigskin over wooden boards, brass studs and clasp, with fragments of a thirteenth-century manuscript pasted to the inside of the front board, and fragment of a tenth-century astronomical treatise pasted to inside of the back board

Layout

Frame-ruled in ink, one column of ruled staves in red, yellow, and brown; four staves per folio; written area: 85 x 60 mm; an extra slip of musical notation, accompanying the phrase "Sancte fortis," has been tipped in before fol. 51

Decoration

Flourished initials in red and blue or red and black throughout; rubrication of capitals and decoration in red and green throughout; some decorated hyper-extended descenders (e.g., fol. 12v); inhabited initials (fols. 15r, 20v, 21r)

Script

Gothic--textualis quadrata

Provenance

• Collection of Professor Leander van Ess, Darmstadt, no. 318, sold 1824; Collection of Sir Thomas Phillipps, no. 702=21985, sold via Sotheby's, London, June 6, 1910, lot 25, to Ettinghausen; John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia; given by his widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1936
   

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. 2032, no. 42.
• Free Library of Philadelphia, A Descriptive Catalogue of the John Frederick Lewis Collection of European Manuscripts in the Free Library of Philadelphia, compiled by Edwin Wolf, 2nd, with an introduction by Dr. A.S.W. Rosenbach (Philadelphia: The Free Library, 1937), p. 12, no. 9.

Keywords

• Processional
• Astrology
• Science
• 15th century
• 13th century
• 10th century
• Gothic
• Inhabited initial
• Liturgy

Licenses

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Table of contents

• Inside front cover — Binding fragment
• fol. 34v — Opening with a scribal signature
• Inside back cover — Tenth-century binding scrap

Decorations

• fol. 1r — Decorated initial P
• fol. 1v — Decorated initial P
• fol. 2r — Decorated initial O
• fol. 3r — Decorated initial C
• fol. 4v — Red initial U
• fol. 6r — Decorated initial M
• fol. 7v — Red initial G
• fol. 8r — Decorated initial I
• fol. 8v — Red initial C
• fol. 9r — Decorated initial P
• fol. 9v — Decorated initial I
• fol. 10r — Blue initial C (added later)
• fol. 10v — Decorated initial S
• fol. 12r — Decorated initial C
• fol. 14v — Red initial S
• fol. 15r — Inhabited initial A
• fol. 15r — Inhabited initial X
• fol. 15v — Decorated initial S
• fol. 17r — Red initial C
• fol. 17v — Decorated initial R
• fol. 18r — Decorated initial U
• fol. 19v — Decorated initial P
• fol. 20v — Inhabited initial P
• fol. 21r — Inhabited initial
• fol. 21v — Decorated initial O
• fol. 22r — Decorated initial O
• fol. 22v — Decorated initial U
• fol. 23r — Decorated initial H
• fol. 24r — Decorated initial G
• fol. 24r — Decorated initial U
• fol. 25r — Decorated initial F
• fol. 26v — Decorated initial H
• fol. 27r — Decorated initial F
• fol. 28v — Decorated initial M
• fol. 30r — Decorated initial M
• fol. 31r — Decorated initial M
• fol. 32v — Decorated initial R
• fol. 35r — Red initial H
• fol. 35v — Decorated initial H
• fol. 36r — Red initial B
• fol. 37r — Decorated initial R
• fol. 37v — Red initial N
• fol. 38v — Red initial Q
• fol. 40r — Decorated initial D
• fol. 40v — Red initial O
• fol. 41r — Decorated initial A
• fol. 41v — Red initial M
• fol. 42v — Decorated initial F
• fol. 43v — Decorated initial F
• fol. 44r — Red initial S
• fol. 45r — Decorated initial P
• fol. 46r — Red initial S
• fol. 46v — Decorated initial S
• fol. 47r — Red initial C
• fol. 49v — Red initial M