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

Title

Missal, use of Rome

Other related names

• Seillière, Achille, baron, 1813-1873, former owner (http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n84193755.html)
• 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 157
(Philadelphia, United States, Free Library of Philadelphia, John Frederick Lewis Collection of European Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• https://know.freelibrary.org/Record/1457694
• deRicci: 34
• Leaves-of-gold: 48
• TELMA-Luxury-Bound: 2953

Publisher

Free Library of Philadelphia

Language

Latin

Origin

Place

Southern Netherlands

Summary

This manuscript is a sixteenth-century Missal, following the use of Rome, from the Southern Netherlands. It is highly decorated, including twenty-two historiated initials.

Notes

• The first six leaves (quire 1) and the last six leaves (quire 35) are blank, framed but not ruled
   
• Stub between fols. 94 and 95
   

Extent

Ii+271+ii; 360 x 245 mm

Foliation

Modern foliation in pencil, upper right

Collation

1 (6), 2-12 (8), 13 (5, +5), 14-16 (8), 17 (7, +3), 18 (7, +3), 19-34 (8), 35 (6)

Signatures

Signatures throughout; print-style signatures, with the first four leaves of a quire identified by a number plus a letter (e.g., D1, D2, D3, D4), and the last four leaves unmarked

Support

Parchment

Catchwords

Catchwords throughout, lower right verso, written vertically; catchwords are also occasionally written on leaves that are not the final leaf of the quire, and on the recto

Binding

French, blind-stamped dark green morocco by Belz-Niedrée with superexlibris of the Bibliothèque de Mello on both covers, parchment doublures in gold-tooled frame, early twentieth century

Layout

Written area: 224 x 145 mm; 1 column of 15 lines; Occasionally with five four-line staves; rubricated headings describing the introit appear before each historiated initial, blue ink ruling, prickings visible

Decoration

Twenty-two Historiated initials, five borders of flora and fauna, two smaller historiated initials, approximately three hundred illuminated and decorated letters.

Script

Gothic bookhand

Provenance

• Baron François Florentin Achille Seillière, Paris (1813-1873); sale, Sotheby's, London, February 28, 1887; catalogue description of Tregaskis (London bookseller) pasted onto back flyleaf; John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia; given by his widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1936; inscribed on the front inner flyleaf: "From the collection of Baron Seillière Missale Romanum ms. on vellum, XV century. 263 leaves, 300 large initials in gold and colors. 23 miniatures, 5 pages with borders. 'Bibliothèque de Mello' armorial binding by Belz- Niedrée."
   

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. 2030, no. 34.
• 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 Library, 1937), p. 169, no. 157.
• Philadelphia Museum of Art, Leaves of Gold: Manuscript Illumination from Philadelphia Collections, edited by James R. Tanis (Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2001), pp. 144-146, no. 48.
• TELMA-Luxury Bound: A corpus of manuscripts illustrated in the Netherlands (1400-1550) (http://www.cn-telma.fr/luxury-bound/manuscrit2953/)

Keywords

• Missal
• 16th century
• Netherlands
• Christian
• Historiated initial
• Illumination
• Liturgy
• Gothic
• Flemish

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Table of contents

• fol. 7r — Temporale, containing Masses for Christmas, Saint Stephen, Epiphany, Last Supper, Easter, Ascension, Pentecost, and the Feast of Corpus Christi
• fol. 100r — Ordo Missae, noted (begins imperfectly), followed by Prefaces
• fol. 127r — Prayers of Saint Ambrose
• fol. 136r — Canon of the Mass, noted
• fol. 248v — Common of Saints
• fol. 265v — Mass for Blessing of Candles, incomplete (decoration incomplete)

Decorations

• Flyleaf 1 recto — Notations in pencil
• fol. 7r — Decorated border, flora
• fol. 14v — Historiated initial C, Stoning of Saint Stephen
• fol. 14v — Decorated border, flora
• fol. 21r — Historiated initial C, Adoration of Kings
• fol. 21r — Decorated border, flora
• fol. 28v — Historiated initial N, True Cross with monograms ihs and ma on altar
• fol. 70r — Historiated initial R, Resurrection
• fol. 77r — Historiated initial V, Ascension of Christ
• fol. 84v — Historiated initial S, Pentecost
• fol. 92v — Historiated initial C, Monstrance
• fol. 111r — Historiated initial U, Virgin and Child in radiance
• fol. 136r — Historiated initial T, Mass of Saint Gregory
• fol. 136r — Decorated border, flora
• fol. 146r — Illuminated initial P, with flora
• fol. 146v — Illuminated initial E, with flora
• fol. 149r — Historiated initial G, Virgin praying surrounded by her symbols
• fol. 149r — Sanctorale
• fol. 149r — Decorated border, flora and fauna
• fol. 153r — Illuminated initial S, with flora
• fol. 153v — Illuminated initial D, with flora
• fol. 155r — Historiated initial S, Presentation of Christ at the Temple
• fol. 161r — Historiated initial O, Saint Benedict
• fol. 166r — Historiated initial R, Annunciation
• fol. 172v — Historiated initial D, Saint John the Baptist with book
• fol. 179v — Historiated initial N, Saints Peter and Paul
• fol. 186r — Historiated initial G, Visitation
• fol. 193r — Historiated initial S, Saint Martin and beggar
• fol. 198v — Historiated initial G, Assumption of the Virgin
• fol. 205v — Historiated initial G, Nativity of the Virgin
• fol. 213v — Historiated initial G, Dedication of a church
• fol. 221v — Historiated initial G, All Saints
• fol. 228v — Historiated initial R, Allegory of Death with three skulls and bone
• fol. 242r — Historiated initial S, Saint Martin and the beggar
• Flyleaf 1 recto — Notations in pencil