Bryn Mawr College, MS 54
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS16554
- Shelfmark:
- MS 54
- Title:
- Sequentiary (Prosar) for Dominican Use
- Place:
- Poissy?, France
- Date:
- 1480-1520
- Language:
- Latin; French
- Material:
- Parchment
- Physical Description:
- Extent: 181+i; 173 x 114 mm bound to 180 x 125 mm; parchment
- Former Owner(s):
- Prieuré Saint-Louis (Poissy)
- Note:
- Binding: Modern (?) orange rough suede binding over wooden boards cut flush with the book block (possibly original boards); spine with five slightly raised bands, edges gilt and possibly gauffered
Layout: One column of five lines of text and five four-line red staves with square musical notation (fols. 1r-171r) or one column of seventeen to nineteen lines (fols. 171v-181r), frame-ruled in lead with widely spaced horizontal rules for the text; prickings top and bottom margins, a few folios with prickings in the outer margins; written area : 105 x 60 mm (fols. 1r-171r), 105 x 65 mm (fols...
Script: Gothic--textualis
Decoration: Opening initial of each chant height of text line plus staff, generally alternating between red and blue, except for the first, a puzzle initial in red and blue (fol. 1r); one-line alternating red and blue initials within chant texts; two- and one-line alternating red and blue initials and majuscules touched in pale yellow in prayers (fols. 171v-181r); guide letters within...
Provenance: Royal abbey of St.-Louis at Poissy; ownership inscription, possibly seventeenth-century, of a sous-prieure (sub-prioress, inside front cover) - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0003/html/BMC_MS54.html
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/3/BMC_MS54/manifest.json
- Holding Institution:
