University of Pennsylvania, Ms. Codex 1589

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS1419

Shelfmark:

Ms. Codex 1589

Title:

Texts for the Commemorative Office of the Virgin Mary and notated Office of the Dead.

Author:

Catholic Church

Catholic Church WIKIDATA

Scribe:

Keysser, Georg

Georg Keysser WIKIDATA

Place:

Elchingen

Elchingen TGN

Date:

1596.

sixteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 131 leaves : paper, color illustrations, music ; 204 x 140 (166 x 107) mm bound to 205 x 145 mm

Note:

Ms. codex.
Origin: Written in the Benedictine abbey in Elchingen (Bavaria), in 1596 (f. 96r).
Title supplied by cataloger.
Binding: Original 16th-century vellum over pasteboard, gold-stamped with stamps of the Annunciation (upper cover) and the Nativity (lower cover) and gold-tooled borders; remnants of 2 pairs of ties.
Decoration: 3 full-page borders in colored inks with architectural columns (f. 1v, 54v, 69v); 5-line initial and full scrollwork border in colored inks (f. 2r); 8-line initial in colored inks and first words in display uncials in red ink (f. 84v); 2-line initial in 2 colors and knotwork design in colored inks (f. 96r); 1- to 3-line initials in various colors throughout; rubrication...
Script: Written in a German Gothic script by Georg Keysser (f. 96r).
Layout: Written in 2 columns of 27 lines (f. 2r-95v) and 2 columns of 6 staves (f. 97v-107v); frame-ruled in red ink with text ruled in lead.
Collation: Paper, 131; 1⁶(-1) 2¹⁰ 3⁶ 4¹⁰ 5⁶ 6¹⁰ 7-9⁶ 10¹⁰(-1) 11-13⁸ 14⁸(+1) 15⁸(-2) 16¹⁰ 17⁸; contemporary foliation in red ink, upper center recto, 1-5, 7, 6, 8-53, 53--66, [67], 68-76, 78-94, [i], 95-96 (=f. 2-98); modern foliation in pencil, [v, 1-126], upper right recto. References in this record are to modern foliation. Catchwords on almost every page, lower right recto or verso.
Music: Contains Hufnagelschrift notation on 5-line staves in the Office of the Dead (f. 97r-107v), with later additions in square notation on 4-line staves (f. 108r-108v).
Sold by Les Enluminures (Paris and Chicago), 2011.
Held in the abbey library no later than 1802, when the monastery was secularized and the contents of its library sent to Munich.

Keyword:

Texts

Devotional literature

choirbooks

codices (bound manuscripts)

Manuscripts, Renaissance

Gregorian chants

Prayers and devotions

Manuscripts, Latin

Finding tabs

Prayers

Benedictines

Liturgics

Germany--Elchingen

Catholic Church

Gregorian chants--Manuscripts

Institutional Record:

https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9949366533503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p34t6f34f/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania