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

Title

Missal

Authors

• Catholic Church

Other related names

• Richardson, Thomas F., former owner
• Lewis, John Frederick, former owner (http://viaf.org/viaf/63874811/)
• Lewis, Anne Baker, former owner

Funders

• Council on Library and Information Resources

Call number

Lewis E 161
(Philadelphia, United States, Free Library of Philadelphia, John Frederick Lewis Collection of European Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• deRicci: 33

Publisher

Free Library of Philadelphia

Language

Latin

Origin

Place

Germany

Summary

This manuscript is a large late fourteenth century Missal, written in Germany.

Notes

• The small miniature in the lower margin of fol. 128v, almost a duplicate of a larger version of the Crucifixion on the previous folio, was placed there for the priest to kiss as part of the celebration of the Eucharist; one often finds two images of the Crucifixion at the Canon of the Mass so that the larger, more beautiful miniature would be preserved from the wear of repeated kissing
   
• Paint in small miniature on 128v is severely worn; several tears in parchment have been sewn with thread
   
• Structure of first and last quires unclear, two stubs between fol. 6 and fol. 7 and stubs conjoined with fols. 263 and 264 appear to be bound into the back inside cover
   

Extent

264; 360 x 263 mm bound to 383 x 285 mm

Foliation

Modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto; earlier foliation in upper right recto through the first half of the manuscript

Collation

1 (9, -7 -8 +9), 2-15 (8), 16 (6), 17-33 (8), 34 (5, +1 -4 -5)

Support

Parchment

Catchwords

Catchwords regularly end eight-leaf quires

Binding

Contemporary blind stamped calf over wooden boards, a circular stamp with a flowering pot with lozenge shaped compartments on the sides, rebacked, with clasps. [Per Pfändtner, stamps are identical to those of a Nuremberg Augustinian convent datable from 1501 to 1526] Inside the front cover is a Post-It note reading, "T. F. Richardson Lectionary German 14th Century or early 15th. 261 ff. 1 large min. See page 121-122 Small min. recto f. 128." Other inscriptions in front cover include "N 26," "M 1350" and "No. 5." Pasted to the inside of the back cover is an auction catalogue description in German.

Layout

Written area 256 x 167 mm, ink ruling, pricking visible; two columns of twenty-five to thirty-four lines; first leaf consists of a single column of thirty-two lines; leaves are foliated in upper margins with alphabetical letters and numerals, fifteen leaves per letter from a-i, ten leaves per letter from k-t; u has five numbered leaves before foliation stops at fol. 248r. Arabic numerals accompany Roman foliation through folio 127, then stop; Marginal annotations are visible throughout in a variety of hands

Decoration

One full-page miniature in ink, paint, and gold and one small marginal miniature in ink and paint; seven large flourished initials with marginal extensions and numerous smaller decorated initials throughout, with occasional decorated ascenders; marginal annotations are visible throughout in a variety of hands; seventeen finding tabs are attached to ends of various leaves

Script

Gothic bookhand

Provenance

• Saint Catherine's Hospital, Forchhiem, Bavaria [?]; Thomas F. Richardson, Boston, sold 1919; John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia; given by his widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1936; Signature and stamp of J. F. Lewis on fol. 1r, dated 1919, along with the stamp of the Thomas F. Richardson Collection
   

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. 33.
• 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. 175-176, no. 161.
• Pfändtner, Karl-Georg, "An Unknown Forchheim Missal in the Free Library of Philadelphia," Manuscripta 49 (2005): pp. 59-68.

Keywords

• Missal
• 14th century
• German
• Christian
• Germany
• Liturgy
• Miniature
• Illustration
• Annotated
• Illumination

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Two sequences, for the Four Evangelists and Saint Anthony. St. Anthony is identified as "n[ost]ro p[at]rono."
• fol. 8r — Temporale, beginning with the first Sunday in Advent and continuing to the Eve of Pentecost
• fol. 124v — Proper Prefaces to the mass (including Christmas, Pentecost, and Epiphany), ending with the Creed and Gloria
• fol. 127r — Canon of the Mass
• fol. 130r — Temporale, beginning with Pentecost to the 24th Sunday after Pentecost, and ending with masses for the Dedication of a Church and the Dedication of an Altar
• fol. 177v — Sanctorale, beginning with Feast of Saint Andrew and including feasts for Emperor Henry II and his wife Kunigunda, Wolfgang of Regensburg, Wenceslaus of Prague, and Bishop Otto of Bamberg
• fol. 253v — Masses for Special Intentions and assorted additional feasts, including the Vigil of the Annunciation (f. 262r). Codex ends with sequences for the Nativity, St. Stephen, St. John, the Mass of the Holy Innocents, Epiphany, Easter, and several ferial feasts

Decorations

• fol. 8r — Decorated initial H
• fol. 19v — Decorated initial P
• fol. 105v — Decorated initial R
• fol. 126v — Full-page miniature of the Crucifixion
• fol. 127r — Decorated initial T
• fol. 128v — Small miniature of the Crucifixion in margin
• fol. 130r — Decorated initial S
• fol. 177v — Decorated initial D