University of Pennsylvania, Ms. Codex 655
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS1569
- Shelfmark:
- Ms. Codex 655
- Title:
- Cistercian liturgical psalter.
- Cistercians
- Scribe:
- Mast, Katherina, 15th century
- Place:
- Belgium
- Date:
- [between 1475 and 1499?]
- Language:
- Latin
- Physical Description:
- Extent: 399 leaves : parchment, music, illustrations ; 120 x 85 (101 x 64) mm bound to 130 x 92 mm
- Former Owner(s):
- Baugh, Albert C. 1891-1981
- Note:
- Foliation: Parchment, ii (modern paper) + 399 + ii (modern paper); [1-399]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto. Folio or section of folios missing between f. 229 and f. 230.
Origin: Probably written in the diocese of Liège in the late 15th century (identification of scribe by Peter Kidd).
Title supplied by cataloger.
Ms. codex.
Layout: Written in 20 lines long lines, in one hand, rubricated throughout. Some music and annotations in a second, nearly contemporary hand.
Binding: Modern calf. Pages have been trimmed resulting in loss at the top of folios at the beginning, with some marginal annotations and musical notation lost throughout.
Decoration: Rubricated, with initials and capitals in red and blue throughout; 2-line, 3-line, 6-line and 7-line initials in red and blue with contrasting filigree.
Script: Written in Gothic book script by Katherina Mast, Cistercian sister with associations to the Cistercian abbeys of Valliers and Hertogendal and Valduc (Peter Kidd; f. 229v). Musical notation at the bottoms of a number of leaves in a second hand.
Gift of Albert Croll Baugh, 1965. - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9924874413503681
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p3dv57/manifest
- Holding Institution:
