University of Pennsylvania, Ms. Codex 1602
Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS1423
- Shelfmark:
- Ms. Codex 1602
- Title:
- Notated office book.
- Author:
- Catholic Church
- Place:
- Cologne?, Germany
- Date:
- [between 1425 and 1450]
- Language:
- Latin
- Physical Description:
- Extent: 65 leaves : parchment ; 202 x 145 (130-132 x 95-98) mm bound to 205 x 155 mm
- Note:
- Collation: Parchment, 65; 1⁸(-1) 2-7⁸ 8⁶ 9²(-1) 10⁴(-1); [1-65]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
Origin: Written in Germany, possibly in the diocese of Cologne, between 1425 and 1450 (Les Enluminures).
Ms. codex.
Binding: 18th- or early 19th-century vellum over pasteboard (Les Enluminures).
Music: Contains Hufnagelschrift notation on 5-line staves with a red F-line.
Decoration: Cadel (strapwork or knotwork) initials in black with black flourishing, often including faces in profile, and red highlights in musical text; rubrics and 1- to 3-line initials in text; initials within text stroked with red.
Script: Written in a Gothic book script, except for a later addition in a Gothic cursive script (f. 65v).
Layout: Written in 20 long lines; frame-ruled in lead, sometimes with additional full horizontal lines below the second line or above the second line from the bottom. Prickings visible on many leaves.
Title supplied by cataloger (Les Enluminures).
Sold by Les Enluminures (Paris and Chicago), 2011. - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9950248703503681
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p3qz22h9t/manifest
- Holding Institution:
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