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

Title

Rituale Dominicanum (Dominican Ritual)

Other related names

• Hackenmayrin, Barbara, former owner
• Labitte, Alphonse, 1853-, former owner (http://viaf.org/viaf/31986060)
• Crane, W.C., 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 191
(Philadelphia, United States, Free Library of Philadelphia, John Frederick Lewis Collection of European Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• deRicci: 51

Publisher

Free Library of Philadelphia

Language

Latin; Middle High German (ca. 1050-1500)

Origin

Place

Augsburg?, Germany

Summary

This manuscript contains the Office of the Dead for a German Dominican convent, possibly in Augsburg, with some chant notation on four-line staves and extensive instructions for the performance of the Office written in German in red ink. It was written in Germany in the mid-15th century in textualis script and has alternating red and blue initials. Small finding tabs of fabric, leather, and metal have been added to the fore edge for navigation.

Notes

• Latin, with German rubrics
   
• Front flyleaf foliated as 1 and back flyleaf foliated as 125; first leaf of manuscript missing between modern fols. 1 and 2; modern fols. 1 and 125 not included in collation
   
• Small finding tabs of metal, leather, or fabric on outer edges of folios
   

Extent

I+124+i; 128 x 95 mm bound to 131 x 96 mm

Foliation

Modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto, with a partial leaf foliated 42 bis between 42 and 43

Collation

1 (10, -1), 2-4 (10), 5 (11, +3), 6-7 (10), 8 (11, +10), 9 (12), 10 (10), 11 (11, +10), 12 (10)

Support

Parchment

Catchwords

On last verso of quires, lower right corner, in red when in a rubric

Binding

Contemporary stamped leather over wooden boards; image of angel, perhaps with a book, in the stamps on the front cover

Layout

One column of fourteen lines or of five staves with notation and text; ruled in ink; written area: 85 x 58 mm

Decoration

One- and two-line initials in alternating red and blue; rubrication and stave lines in red

Script

Gothic--textualis

Provenance

• Barbara Hackenmayrin of Ulm, 15th century (inscription, front flyleaf); late nineteenth- or early twentieth-century bookplate of Alphonse Labitte; W. C. Crane sale, Anderson Galleries, New York, Dec. 9, 1912, no. 395; John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia; 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. 2033, no. 51.
• 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. 210, no. 191.

Keywords

• Prayer book
• 15th century
• Christian
• Germany
• Gothic
• Musical notation
• Liturgy
• Devotion

Licenses

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Decorations

• Inside front cover — Bookplate, Alphonse Labitte
• fol. 27v — Large initial I
• fol. 53r — Sheet music
• fol. 56v — Large initial I
• fol. 64r — Sheet music
• fol. 86r — Sheet music
• fol. 89v — Sheet music
• fol. 119r — Large initial I
• Inside back cover — Manuscript description