University of Pennsylvania, Ms. Codex 1602
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- DS ID:
- DS1423
- Shelfmark:
- Ms. Codex 1602
- Title:
- Notated office book
- Author:
- Catholic Church
- Place:
- Cologne?, Germany
- Date:
- between 1425 and 1450
- Language:
- Latin
- Material:
- parchment
- Physical Description:
- Extent: 65 leaves : parchment ; 202 x 145 (130-132 x 95-98) mm bound to 205 x 155 mm
- Note:
- Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger (Les Enluminures).
Collation: Parchment, 65; 18(-1) 2-78 86 92(-1) 104(-1); [1-65]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto. Link to collation model at end of record.
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.
Script: Written in a Gothic book script, except for a later addition in a Gothic cursive script (f. 65v).
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.
Music: Contains Hufnagelschrift notation on 5-line staves with a red F-line.
Binding: 18th- or early 19th-century vellum over pasteboard (Les Enluminures).
Origin: Written in Germany, possibly in the diocese of Cologne, between 1425 and 1450 (Les Enluminures).
Sold by Les Enluminures (Paris and Chicago), 2011. - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://find.library.upenn.edu/catalog/9950248703503681
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p3qz22h9t/manifest
- Holding Institution:
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