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

Title

Gradual

Other related names

• Mosteiro dos Jerónimos (Lisbon, Portugal), former owner (http://viaf.org/viaf/168781211)
• Karl W. Hiersemann (Firm), former owner (http://viaf.org/viaf/147835641)

Funders

• Council on Library and Information Resources

Call number

Lewis E 226
(Philadelphia, United States, Free Library of Philadelphia, John Frederick Lewis Collection of European Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• https://know.freelibrary.org/Record/1597603
• deRicci: 31

Publisher

Free Library of Philadelphia

Language

Latin

Origin

Place

Belém, Portugal

Summary

Along with Free Library MSS Lewis E 221-234, this manuscript is associated with the Jerónimos Monastery in Belém, Portugal, (see colophons in 221 and 222) which was a royal foundation still under construction at the time this manuscript was produced in the mid-sixteenth century. The monastery was dedicated to Saint Jerome, whose Introit in this manuscript is marked with an exceptionally large initial (fol. 86r). This book contains the hymns and their musical settings for part of the sanctorale cycle from Saint Andrew (shown in an historiated initial on fol. 1r) to Saint Clement (fols. 1r-102v), as well as the common of the apostles (fols. 103r-190r). A later hand has added an index on fol. 190v. There is also early foliation in red ink and remains of parchment tabs on fols. 37 and 121. Later hands have also added supplementary musical notation on fols. 106v, 169v, and 186r. In addition to the two initials mentioned above, there are hundreds of large, colored initials with pen-work decoration. Occasionally, this extends into marginal flourishes inhabited by birds and other beasts (fols. 34v, 40v, and 47v). This manuscript's eighteenth-century binding retains its original metal bosses, corners, and clasps.

Notes

• Bottom half of fol. 184 excised
   
• Fragmentary remains of parchment tabs sewn into outer edges of fols. 37 and 121
   
• Additional musical notation added by later hands to fols. 106v, 169v, 186r, and inside back cover
   
• Evidence of early damage and repairs to parchment
   
• Some text and musical notation flaked
   
• Folios excised between fols. 120-121, 122-123, and 188-189
   

Extent

I+190+i; 508 x 351 mm bound to 540 x 367 mm

Foliation

Early foliation in red ink, upper right recto (defective after fol. 122); modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto

Collation

1-6 (8), 7-8 (6), 9-12 (8), 13 (6), 14-15 (8), 16 (6), 17 (7, +3 +6 +7), 18-20 (8), 21 (6), 22 (8), 23 (4), 24-25 (8), 26 (5, +3)

Support

Parchment

Catchwords

Original catchwords on fols. 8v, 16v, 32v, 40v, 48v, 60v, 68v, 76v, 84v, 98v, 106v, 114v, 127v, 143v, 157v, 165v, and 177v

Binding

Eighteenth-century stamped dark brown calfskin; metal corners, bosses and clasps; edges stained red

Layout

Single column of six lines with five-line staves in red ink; hard-ruled; written area: 397 x 235 mm

Decoration

One illuminated initial (fol. 1r); numerous black and colored initials with pen-work decoration, some with marginal flourishes and birds or dragons

Script

Gothic--rotunda

Provenance

• Probably gift of King John III to the College of St. Jerome in 1548 (along with Free Library MSS Lewis E 212-234, see colophons in first two volumes); Hiersemann of Leipzig (bookseller); bought by the Free Library in 1900; catalog entry and typed description pasted onto the inside front cover; bookplate of the Free Library of Philadelphia pasted on to inside front cover; Stamped "Geo. S. Pepper Fund" and "3079," bottom of fol. 1r
   

Related resources

• J. Thomson, Hither and Thither (Philadelphia, 1905), pp. 135-144.
• Supplement to the Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada, originated by C.U. Faye, continued and edited by W.H. Bond (New York: The Bibliographical Society of America, 1962), p. 452, no. 31.

Keywords

• Gradual
• 16th century
• Historiated initial
• Missing leaves
• Musical notation
• Notable binding
• Liturgy
• Portugal
• Portuguese

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Sanctorale, beginning with Saint Andrew and ending with Saint Clement
• fol. 103r — Common of Saints
• fol. 190v — Index

Decorations

• Inside front cover [insert recto — Type-written description
• fol. 1r — Historiated initial M, Saint Andrew
• fol. 34v — Marginal drawing, bird
• fol. 40v — Marginal drawings, bird and dragon
• fol. 47v — Marginal drawing, bird
• fol. 86r — Illuminated initial G
• fol. 103r — Decorated initial M
• fol. 121r — Decorated initial I
• fol. 153v — Large red initial I
• fol. 169v — Large red initial I