University of Pennsylvania, Ms. Codex 141

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS1343

Shelfmark:

Ms. Codex 141

Title:

Prayer book and processional

Prayer book

Author:

Catholic Church

Catholic Church WIKIDATA

Place:

Germany

Germany TGN

Date:

1450?

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin, with a few leaves in German

Latin WIKIDATA

German WIKIDATA

Material:

parchment, color illustrations, music

Parchment AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 205 leaves : parchment, color illustrations, music ; 93 x 70 mm bound to 100 x 77 mm

Note:

Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger; other title, Rituale praedicatorum, from Zacour-Hirsch Catalogue.
Foliation: Parchment, i (paper) + 205 + v (paper); [1-205]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
Layout: Written in 12-14 long lines, with musical notation written in 5 long lines; some pages ruled in ink; some prickings visible.
Script: Written in a Gothic script by several hands, with marginal notations and later additions, including a few leaves of music in a later hand, and the beginning of the Gospel according to John in a later cursive hand on paper endleaves.
Decoration: Historiated initial D with woman and angel with gold illuminated halos, identified by Debra Taylor Cashion as the Ecstasy of Mary Magdalene (f. 1r). Large decorated initial D in blue and red (f. 22r); face in brown initial (f. 184r), decorated initials in red and undecorated initials in blue throughout manuscript.
Binding: 18th-century German calf, with 1 clasp intact, detached clasp stored with manuscript in mylar sleeve.
Origin: Written in the Rhineland (Zacour-Hirsch), perhaps in Cologne (Cashion, Leaves of Gold), ca. 1450 (Zacour-Hirsch).
Musical notation: 4-line staves in red ink; square notes; a few leaves of musical notation in brown ink (staves and notes) in a later hand.
Incipit: Domine ne in furore [Ps. 6].
Imperfect; leaves between f. 10-11, 50-51, 118-119 known to be wanting.
Volume appears to have been in use in a women's monastic community, names of nuns written on several leaves (f. 93v-94r, 125v-126r).
Unidentified signature on paper endleaf at the beginning.
Sold by Anton Düssel, 1949.

Keyword:

Manuscripts, Renaissance

Prayers and devotions

Art

Devotional literature

codices (bound manuscripts)

Manuscripts, Latin

Texts

Specimens

antiphonaries

Manuscripts, Medieval

illuminations (paintings)

Prayers

Monastic and religious life of women

Mary Magdalene, Saint

Liturgics

Illumination of books and manuscripts

Catholic Church

Early works

Gregorian chants

Institutional Record:

https://find.library.upenn.edu/catalog/9929754103503681

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Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania