University of Pennsylvania, Ms. Codex 141
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS1343
- Shelfmark:
- Ms. Codex 141
- Title:
- Prayer book and processional.
- Catholic Church
- Place:
- Germany
- Date:
- [1450?]
- Language:
- Latin, with a few leaves in German
- Physical Description:
- Extent: 205 leaves : parchment, color illustrations, music ; 93 x 70 mm bound to 100 x 77 mm
- Note:
- Ms. codex.
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).
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.
Imperfect; leaves between f. 10-11, 50-51, 118-119 known to be wanting.
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].
Binding: 18th-century German calf, with 1 clasp intact, detached clasp stored with manuscript in mylar sleeve.
Sold by Anton Düssel, 1949.
Unidentified signature on paper endleaf at the beginning. - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9929754103503681
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p3kp7tt5x/manifest
- Holding Institution:
