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

Title

Pontifical

Other related names

• Thomas F. Richardson, 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 171
(Philadelphia, United States, Free Library of Philadelphia, John Frederick Lewis Collection of European Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• deRicci: 36

Publisher

Free Library of Philadelphia

Language

Latin

Origin

Place

Italy

Summary

This Pontifical was made in the north of Italy, perhaps in the Veneto, circa 1420. The text follows William Durandus's late thirteenth-century Pontifical closely. He is mentioned in the rubric on fol. 65v. It includes a number of French saints in the Litany including Denis, Hilary, and Martial, but most notably Saint Privatus, dedicatee of Mende Cathedral where Durandus was bishop. The book is missing some leaves, noticeably the first leaf from the table at the beginning of the text (preceding fol. 1) but also after fol. 65v, where the catchword "Secunda" is not repeated on fol. 66r. The body of the text is heavily rubricated and is enlivened by numerous colored initials with pen-work flourishes and hundreds of illuminated initials with foliate decoration. There is also musical notation, in the form of four-line staves with neumes. Remarkably, this manuscript preserves its original fifteenth-century binding. The inside front cover contains scribal pen trial initials in red and black ink.

Notes

• Leaves missing before fol. 1 and between fols. 65 and 66; marginal notes and manicules in later hands
   

Extent

I+192+i; 282 x 195 mm bound to 288 x 206 mm

Foliation

Early foliation in ink, upper right recto; modern foliation in pencil, upper right and lower right recto

Collation

1 (8, -1), 2-4 (8), 5 (6), 6-8 (8), 9 (4), 10 (7, -1 +7), 11 (6), 12-14 (10), 15-24 (8), 25 (4)

Support

Parchment

Catchwords

Original catchwords at fols. 7v, 15v, 23v, 31v, 37v, 45v, 53v, 61v, 65v, 72v, 78v, 88v, 98v, 108v, 116v, 124v, 132v, 140v, 148v, 156v, 164v, 172v, 180v, 188v

Binding

Contemporary stamped calf over wooden boards with stamped decoration including fleurs-de-lys, birds, rosettes, and wyverns; evidence of clasps; brown cloth case

Layout

Single column of twenty-eight lines; musical notation on four-line staves; ruled in ink; pricking visible; written area: 185 x 134 mm

Decoration

One hundred and three very fine ornamental initials in gold and colors, with bright blue predominating; other initials in red and blue with some penwork decoration; rubrication, underlining, and stave lines in red

Script

Littera bononiensis

Provenance

• Thomas F. Richardson, Boston; to John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia, 1919; 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. 2031, no. 36.
• 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. 185, no. 171.

Keywords

• 15th century
• Italian
• Manicules
• Missing leaves
• Musical notation
• Pontifical
• Original binding
• Italy
• Liturgy

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Pontifical, preceded by table of contents (beginning lacking); incipit: Pontifex pueros in fronte crismare uolens paratus... [fol. 2r]; explicit: Amen. In nomine patris et filii et spiritus sancti. Amen. Ambulare in pace. Finito libro fit laus et gloria Christo. Amen. [fol 192v]

Decorations

• Inside front cover — Scribal pen trials
• Flyleaf 1 recto — Signature, John Frederick Lewis
• Flyleaf 1 recto — Notations in pencil
• fol. 2r — Illuminated initial P
• fol. 3v — Illuminated initial P
• fol. 3v — Illuminated initial P
• fol. 4v — Illuminated initial S
• fol. 5r — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 5v — Illuminated initial F
• fol. 6v — Illuminated initial H
• fol. 7r — Illuminated initial L
• fol. 8r — Illuminated initial E
• fol. 9v — Illuminated initial S
• fol. 9v — Illuminated initial A
• fol. 14r — Illuminated initial S
• fol. 16v — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 23r — Illuminated initial A
• fol. 36v — Illuminated initial E
• fol. 37v — Illuminated initial Q
• fol. 39r — Illuminated initial N
• fol. 40r — Illuminated initial C
• fol. 44r — Illuminated initial E
• fol. 44v — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 44v — Illuminated initial C
• fol. 53v — Illuminated initial I
• fol. 54r — Illuminated initial C
• fol. 58v — Illuminated initial S
• fol. 60r — Illuminated initial C
• fol. 63r — Illuminated initial S
• fol. 64r — Illuminated initial I
• fol. 64v — Illuminated initial I
• fol. 67r — Illuminated initial E
• fol. 80v — Illuminated initial Q
• fol. 93r — Illuminated initial A
• fol. 96v — Illuminated initial Q
• fol. 99v — Illuminated initial E
• fol. 103v — Illuminated initial S
• fol. 104r — Illuminated initial P
• fol. 105r — Illuminated initial I
• fol. 106v — Illuminated initial M
• fol. 106v — Illuminated initial B
• fol. 107r — Illuminated initial B
• fol. 109r — Illuminated initial B
• fol. 110r — Illuminated initial Q
• fol. 110v — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 110v — Illuminated initial U
• fol. 111r — Illuminated initial O
• fol. 111r — Illuminated initial B
• fol. 112r — Illuminated initial B
• fol. 112v — Illuminated initial T
• fol. 113r — Illuminated initial B
• fol. 113r — Illuminated initial S
• fol. 115r — Illuminated initial M
• fol. 115v — Illuminated initial B
• fol. 116v — Illuminated initial B
• fol. 116v — Illuminated initial B
• fol. 117r — Illuminated initial U
• fol. 117r — Illuminated initial B
• fol. 118r — Illuminated initial S
• fol. 118v — Illuminated initial S
• fol. 119v — Illuminated initial E
• fol. 120r — Illuminated initial N
• fol. 120v — Illuminated initial N
• fol. 121r — Illuminated initial S
• fol. 121r — Illuminated initial B
• fol. 121r — Illuminated initial A
• fol. 121v — Illuminated initial D
• fol. 121v — Illuminated initial A
• fol. 121v — Illuminated initial B
• fol. 122r — Illuminated initial O
• fol. 122r — Illuminated initial B
• fol. 122v — Illuminated initial I
• fol. 125v — Illuminated initial P
• fol. 132v — Illuminated initial M
• fol. 140r — Illuminated initial F
• fol. 142r — Illuminated initial S
• fol. 145r — Illuminated initial S
• fol. 146v — Illuminated initial S
• fol. 149r — Illuminated initial C
• fol. 152r — Illuminated initial S
• fol. 154v — Illuminated initial A
• fol. 156r — Illuminated initial P
• fol. 157r — Illuminated initial C
• fol. 157v — Illuminated initial P
• fol. 159r — Illuminated initial P
• fol. 160r — Illuminated initial S
• fol. 160r — Illuminated initial Q
• fol. 160v — Illuminated initial P
• fol. 161r — Illuminated initial C
• fol. 161r — Illuminated initial P
• fol. 166r — Illuminated initial P
• fol. 167v — Illuminated initial C
• fol. 168r — Illuminated initial L
• fol. 168r — Illuminated initial G
• fol. 169r — Illuminated initial O
• fol. 169r — Illuminated initial C
• fol. 169v — Illuminated initial S
• fol. 170v — Illuminated initial I
• fol. 171r — Illuminated initial I
• fol. 172r — Illuminated initial B
• fol. 172r — Illuminated initial M
• fol. 172v — Illuminated initial U
• fol. 173r — Illuminated initial Q
• fol. 174v — Illuminated initial B
• fol. 178v — Illuminated initial B
• fol. 187r — Illuminated initial B
• Flyleaf 1 recto — Notations in ink