University of Pennsylvania, Ms. Oversize 33
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS2098
- Shelfmark:
- Ms. Oversize 33
- Title:
- Choir psalter gatherings
- Catholic Church
- Place:
- Spain
- Date:
- between 1500 and 1599
- Language:
- Latin
- Material:
- parchment, illustrations, music
- Physical Description:
- Extent: 40 leaves : parchment, illustrations, music ; 690 x 510 (625 x 370) mm
- Former Owner(s):
- Schoenberg, Lawrence J
- Note:
- Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Collation: Parchment, 40; 11 2-48 58(-8); modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto. Link to collation model at end of record.
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.
Script: Written in a rounded Gothic script.
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.
Binding: Gatherings stitched to 6 bands but without binding; some of the penwork was trimmed for binding.
Origin: Written in Spain in the 16th century.
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:
- Institutional Record:
- https://find.library.upenn.edu/catalog/9942700553503681
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p3cc4q/manifest
- Holding Institution:
