University of Pennsylvania, Ms. Codex 1561
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS1413
- Shelfmark:
- Ms. Codex 1561
- Title:
- Dominican prayer book.
- Catholic Church
- Place:
- Bamberg?, Germany
- Date:
- [between 1455 and 1475, 16--?]
- Language:
- Latin with rubrics in German and later additions in Latin and German
- Physical Description:
- Extent: 236 leaves : parchment and paper ; parchment 108 x 83 (83 x 62) mm and paper 109 x 85 mm bound together to 116 x 96 mm
- Note:
- Title supplied by cataloger.
Origin: Written in southern Germany, probably in the diocese of Bamberg, within a few decades of the canonization of Vincent Ferrer (1455), with substantial additions made in Germany in the late 17th or early 18th century.
Ms. codex.
Script: Written in a 15th-century hybrid script (f. 1r-135v) and 17th-century cursive script (f. 136r-216r).
Layout: Written in 16 long lines and frame-ruled in faint ink (f. 1r-135v); square musical notation on 4-line staves (f. 62r-106r, 132r-134v, red staves; 137r-150r, 182r-182v, black staves).
Binding: Late 17th- or early 18th-century leather over wooden boards, covers cracked along hinges and upper cover detached; two leather clasps with brass fasteners attaching to pins on the upper board, lower clasp detached.
Foliation: Parchment and paper, i + 235; [1-139 (parchment, with paper glued to both sides of f.137, 139), 140-216 (paper), 217-235 (blank paper)]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
Decoration: 5-line initials in blue with red penwork (f. 1r, 128r); 1- and 2-line initials, alternately red and blue, throughout; rubrics and staves in red.
Sold by Les Enluminures (Paris & Chicago), 2010. - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9946518133503681
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p3w08wj7d/manifest
- Holding Institution:
