Bryn Mawr College, MS 51

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS16551

Shelfmark:

MS 51

Title:

Processional (Use of the Dominican nuns of Poissy)

Processional

Place:

Poissy, Northern France

Date:

1450-1500

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin; Middle French (ca. 1400-1600)

Latin WIKIDATA

Middle French WIKIDATA

Material:

Parchment

Parchment AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: iii+123+iii; 134 x 90 mm bound to 140 x 104 mm; parchment

Former Owner(s):

Bonhomme, Jules

Jules Bonhomme WIKIDATA

Note:

There are two physically distinct sections to the manuscript, copied by at least two different scribes, but both very similar in appearance, and certainly contemporary; the first section consists of fols. 1-56, with fol. 56 being a smaller folio tipped in at the end of the quire, blank on the verso, that provides the conclusion to the prayer on fol. 55v (it has glue marks on the verso, which...
Binding: Bound in late eighteenth-century morocco over pasteboards, gilt-tooled on spine with floral motifs in compartments, marbled endpapers, edges dyed red; title on spine: "PROCESSIONALE"
Layout: Nineteen lines of text and four lines of square musical notation on four-line red staves, ruled lightly in red ink; written area: 95 x 67 mm
Script: Bâtarde
Decoration: Three three- to four-line red and blue initials, capitals touched in yellow, decorative initials within music, small initials in alternate red or blue, rubrics in red
Related resource: Huglo, M. Les manuscrits du Processional, Volume I, Autriche à Espagne, Répertoire international des sources musicales B XIV (1), Munich, 1999.
Provenance: Written in the fifteenth century for use by a Dominican nun of the royal abbey of St.-Louis at Poissy; belonged to the abbé Jules Bonhomme, curé de Saint-Jean Baptiste de Grenelles, Paris, and chaplain to the Fort de l'Est, Paris, musicologist and author of numerous liturgical studies; his monogram and pencil notes in French on first endleaf, recording that a nineteenth-century pen...

Keyword:

Processionals (Liturgical books)

France

France--Poissy

Fifteenth century

French (culture or style)

Institutional Record:

https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0003/html/BMC_MS51.html

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/3/BMC_MS51/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

Bryn Mawr College