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

Title

Religious manual

Other related names

• Dominican Nunnery Holy Cross (Asperg, Wurtemberg), former owner
• Hawkins, Rush C, former owner
• Birch & Son, former owner (http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n84186695.html)
• Gilbert, W. J, 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 151
(Philadelphia, United States, Free Library of Philadelphia, John Frederick Lewis Collection of European Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• deRicci: 105

Publisher

Free Library of Philadelphia

Language

Latin

Origin

Place

Germany

Summary

This is a collection of offices, followed by seven short unidentified texts.

Extent

Ii+101+i; 142 x 105 mm bound to 149 x 103 mm

Foliation

Foliation in Roman numerals, red ink, upper center; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto; references in this record are to the modern foliation in pencil; one insert not included in foliation, between folios 69 and 70

Collation

1-9 (10), 10 (11, +8)

Support

Parchment

Catchwords

Lower right verso; Folios 10v, 20v, 30v, 40v, 50v, 60v, 70v, 80v

Binding

Original blind stamped calf over wooden boards, with unusual stamps of a running hound and the evangelical lion of Saint Mark on the top cover, with clasp, in maroon morocco case

Layout

One added leaf in front, eleven at the end; some musical notation on 4 occasionally 5 line staves; 1 column of 16 lines; prickings visible on some folios

Decoration

Capitals in red and blue; musical staves and rubrication in red

Script

Gothic

Provenance

• Belonged to a Dominican nunnery of the Holy Cross, possibly at Asperg, Württemberg; note dated 1498 concerning two nuns: Maria Holtzschüchin and Agnes Rüdolfin; note dated 1591 by the nunnery's confessor, Fr. Mathias Dillinganus, and another early 17th century note by his successor, Fr. R. Han; later in a South German nunnery; Rush C. Hawkins sale, New York, March 21, 1887, no. 1548; sale by Thomas Birch's sons, Philadelphia, Oct. 12, 1887, no. 401; W. J. Gilbert, St. Louis; his sale, Philadelphia, June 7, 1910, no. 244; (directly to?) John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia; given by his widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1936.
   

Keywords

• 15th century
• German
• Germany
• Miscellany
• Liturgy
• Musical notation

Licenses

• Text

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  URL

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Decorations

• Flyleaf 1 verso — Catalog entry
• Flyleaf 2 recto — Prayer
• fol. 1r — Six line decorated initial H
• fol. 26v — Three line decorated initial D
• fol. 32v — Three line decorated initial D
• fol. 85v — Musical notation
• fol. 86r — Musical notation
• fol. 86v — Musical notation
• fol. 87r — Musical notation
• fol. 87v — Musical notation
• fol. 88r — Musical notation
• fol. 95v — Musical notation
• fol. 98r — Musical notation
• Flyleaf 1 verso — Catalog entry