University of Pennsylvania, Ms. Oversize 33

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS2098

Shelfmark:

Ms. Oversize 33

Title:

Choir psalter gatherings.

Author:

Catholic Church

Catholic Church WIKIDATA

Place:

Spain

Spain TGN

Date:

[between 1500 and 1599]

sixteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 40 leaves : parchment, illustrations, music ; 690 x 510 (625 x 370) mm

Former Owner(s):

Schoenberg, Lawrence J

Lawrence J. Schoenberg WIKIDATA

Note:

Collation: Parchment, 40; 1¹ 2-4⁸ 5⁸(-8); modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto.
Origin: Written in Spain in the 16th century.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Binding: Gatherings stitched to 6 bands but without binding; some of the penwork was trimmed for binding.
Decoration: Decorated 1-line initials throughout, in either red or blue with penwork infilling and decoration in purple or red or both; 18 2-line initials marking the first verses of psalms and 1 4-line initial at the beginning of the Te Deum in red and blue with purple and red penwork infilling and extending into the margins. Edges stained red.
Ms. codex.
Script: Written in a rounded Gothic script.
Layout: Psalms written in 15 long lines; Te Deum written in 5 lines with musical notation; psalm texts originally ruled in lead, ornamental double bounding lines and ruling in red ink added after the text was written.
Sold at auction at Sotheby's, 5 December 1978, lot 59, to Lawrence J. Schoenberg; LJS 291 in the Schoenberg collection.
Gift of Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2009.

Keyword:

Manuscripts

Gregorian chants

Specimens

Texts

Manuscripts, Renaissance

Manuscripts, Latin

choirbooks

Psalters

Liturgics

Catholic Church

Gregorian chants--Manuscripts

Institutional Record:

https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9942700553503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p3cc4q/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania