University of Pennsylvania, Ms. Codex 1589

Images provided by hosting institution via

Mirador viewer

An error occurred

Technical details

TypeError: Failed to fetch

{
  "manifest": {
    "error": "TypeError: Failed to fetch",
    "id": "https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p34t6f34f/manifest",
    "isFetching": false
  },
  "window": {
    "collectionIndex": 0,
    "companionAreaOpen": true,
    "companionWindowIds": [
      "cw-b3068706-252d-4d5a-ac19-3a0850c066ce",
      "cw-bcb0c2c8-4d01-4942-a981-8272a13a7b30"
    ],
    "draggingEnabled": true,
    "highlightAllAnnotations": false,
    "id": "window-bfca072d-adfb-4ea0-a55b-d002fe4dd4c5",
    "manifestId": "https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p34t6f34f/manifest",
    "maximized": false,
    "rangeId": null,
    "rotation": null,
    "selectedAnnotations": {},
    "sideBarOpen": false,
    "sideBarPanel": "info",
    "thumbnailNavigationId": "cw-bcb0c2c8-4d01-4942-a981-8272a13a7b30",
    "loadedManifest": "https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p34t6f34f/manifest",
    "canvasIndex": 2,
    "allowMaximize": false
  }
}

1 of 0

Metadata

DS ID:

DS1419

Shelfmark:

Ms. Codex 1589

Title:

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

Hours of the Virgin

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

Material:

paper, color illustrations, music

Paper AAT

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.
Title supplied by cataloger.
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. Link to...
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.
Script: Written in a German Gothic script by Georg Keysser (f. 96r).
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, foliation...
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).
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.
Origin: Written in the Benedictine abbey in Elchingen (Bavaria), in 1596 (f. 96r).
Held in the abbey library no later than 1802, when the monastery was secularized and the contents of its library sent to Munich.
Sold by Les Enluminures (Paris and Chicago), 2011.

Keyword:

Manuscripts, Renaissance

Prayers and devotions

Devotional literature

codices (bound manuscripts)

Finding tabs

Manuscripts, Latin

Texts

Gregorian chants

Prayers

choirbooks

Catholic Church

Liturgics

Benedictines

Germany--Elchingen

Gregorian chants--Manuscripts

Early works

Institutional Record:

https://find.library.upenn.edu/catalog/9949366533503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p34t6f34f/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania