University of Pennsylvania, Ms. Codex 1590
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS1420
- Shelfmark:
- Ms. Codex 1590
- Title:
- Antiphonary : use of Lyon.
- Catholic Church
- Place:
- Lyon?, France
- Date:
- [between 1275 and 1325]
- Language:
- Latin, with a few marginal notes in French
- Physical Description:
- Extent: 176 leaves : parchment, color illustrations, music ; 256 x 185 (200 x 127-132) mm bound to 265 x 195 mm
- Former Owner(s):
- Faverjon, Franciscus
Giraud, Petrus
Gendreau, Georges
Cathédrale Saint-Jean-Baptiste (Lyon, France)
- Note:
- Ms. codex.
Origin: Written in France, probably Lyon, in the last quarter of the 13th or first quarter of the 14th century (Les Enluminures).
Title supplied by cataloger.
Decoration: 9 large puzzle initials in red and blue with red and blue filigree penwork extending in the margins (f. 29v, 33v, 40v, 87v, 104r, 107v, 111v, 123v, 145r); smaller initials in red with blue filigree or blue with red filigree throughout; staves and rubrics in red; later addition of a small drawing in ink in place of a missing initial I (f. 144v).
Script: Written in a Gothic script.
Layout: Written in up to 12 staves per leaf, with a line of text below each staff, except for the last gathering (f. 172-176), which is written in 2 columns of 13 staves (f. 172r-173r) and 14 staves with no side margins (f. 173v-176v); ruled in lead; some prickings visible.
Collation: Parchment, i (late 17th- or 18th-century paper) + 176 + i (late 17th- or 18th-century paper); 1⁸ 2¹⁰(-1) 3¹⁰(-2) 4-10⁸ 11⁶ 12-21⁸ 22⁶(-1) 23⁶(-1); i-clxxvi, [1-176]; near-contemporary foliation in roman numerals in ink, upper left verso; modern foliation in ink, upper right recto.
Binding: Late 17th- or 18th-century calf over pasteboards (Les Enluminures).
Music: Square notation on 4-line staves in red ink.
Sold by Les Enluminures (Paris and Chicago), 2011.
Possibly copied for and used in the Cathédrale Saint-Jean-Baptiste in Lyon (Les Enluminures).
Ownership inscriptions: Franciscus Faverjon (f. 58v, uncovered parchment pastedown inside lower cover), Petrus Giraud (f. 168v), both in 16th-century cursive hands.
Formerly owned by Georges Gendreau, curator of the Bibliothèque de la ville de Fontainebleau, who acquired it when it was being sold as bookbinder's waste. - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9949613113503681
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p3r20rz7j/manifest
- Holding Institution:
