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

Title

Antiphonary

Other related names

• Convent of San Paolo, former owner
• 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 11
(Philadelphia, United States, Free Library of Philadelphia)

Alternate identifiers

• deRicci: 47

Publisher

Free Library of Philadelphia

Language

Latin; Italian

Origin

Place

Florence?, Italy

Summary

This small format antiphonal of forty-nine folios includes only the antiphons for the Feast of the Purification of the Virgin, Palm Sunday, and the Burial Service. It was written for use by friars officiating for the nuns of an unidentified convent dedicated to Saint Paul, as stated by the contemporary instructions for use written in Italian on the final folio.

Notes

• Third upper flyleaf is a parchment singleton, with a prominent stub visible against its recto side
   

Extent

Iii+49+ii; 195 x 135 mm bound to 206 x 140 mm

Foliation

Foliation in red ink using roman numerals, upper right recto

Collation

1-3 (10), 4 (8), 5 (10), 6 (1, +1)

Support

Parchment

Catchwords

Horizontal catchwords at Xv, XXv, and XXXVIIIv

Binding

Seventeenth-century black morocco, blind tooled border around the sides, with clasps

Layout

Musical notation on red, four-line staves; four staves, with accompanying text, to a page; frame ruled; written area: 149 x 91 mm

Decoration

Some penwork capitals with grotesques; capitals in red and blue; rubrication and musical staves in red

Script

Gothic--semi-textualis

Colophon

[On fol. XXXXVIIIIv, after instructions:] finis. 1496 [and in larger lettering below:] cum natus est no... ...stris natus est nobis. venite. A. ang.

Provenance

• Written for the burial service of the nuns of the Convent of San Paolo; John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia; given by his widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1936; manuscript dated 1496 on fol. 49v. 1496 was the year when reconstruction on the Ospedale di San Paolo in Florence was completed
   

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. 2033, no. 47.
• 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. 15, no. 11.

Keywords

• 15th century
• Italian
• Italy
• Antiphonary
• Christian
• Musical notation
• Inhabited initial

Licenses

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Table of contents

• Ir — Introit for the Transfiguration; incipit: Viderunt ingressus tuos...; explicit: ...lux perpetua luceat eis.
• XXXXVIv — Antiphon, Mass for the Dead; incipit: In paradisium deducant te...; explicit: ...eternam habeas requiem.
• XXXXVIIIIr — Instructions for use, in Italian; incipit: Questo ordine infrascripto e quello ch'debeno tegneire li frati...; explicit: ...cum oratione etcetera. finis. 1496.
• Inside back cover — Modern typewritten description and notations

Decorations

• Ir — Inhabited initial V
• VIIIr — Decorated initial Q
• XXIIIr — Decorated initial C
• XXIIIIr — Decorated initial C
• XXXIr — Decorated initial T
• XXXVv — Decorated initial T
• XXXVv — Decorated initial I
• XXXVIv — Inhabited initial L