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[Devotional roll]

Available Online: https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3k35md6x
Title: [Devotional roll]
Date: 1400
Item Type: Text
Physical Format: Scrolls (information artifacts), Prayers, Manuscripts, Latin, Manuscripts, English (Middle), Manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Renaissance, Prayers and devotions, Devotional literature, manuscripts (documents)
Description: A roll of prayers in Latin, including prayers to Mary, the Trinity, Jesus, and the name of Jesus, and several prayers to be said at the point in the Mass when the Eucharist is held up in view of the congregation. All rubrics on the recto are in Latin; some rubrics on the verso are in Middle English. Text is missing in the first three lines on the recto due to a wedge-shaped cut at the top of the manuscript. The text at the end of the verso (the outside surface of the roll) is so rubbed that it is illegible.
Extent: 1 roll (2 membranes) : parchment ; 1372 x 130 mm
Language: Latin
Coverage: Early works to 1800
Note: Ms. roll., Title supplied by cataloger., Script: Written in a Gothic script., Decoration: 3-line initial in blue with red flourishing at top; 2-line initials in blue with red flourishing throughout. Rubrics in red. Some capitals slashed with red. Some prayers and a psalm at the end of the verso have 1-line initials in red and blue., Origin: Written in England in the 15th century., A translation of the Latin and transcription of the Middle English is shelved with the manuscript in the manuscript's former box., Latin with some rubrics in Middle English.
Relation: Digital facsimile for browsing (Colenda): https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3k35md6x
Subject: Catholic Church -- Prayers and devotions -- Latin, Catholic Church, Lord's Supper -- Prayers and devotions -- Early works to 1800, Lord's Supper
Physical Location: Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Ms. Roll 1563
Provenance: Gift of Gordon A. Block, Jr., in memory of his mother Reba Fleisher Block, 1963., Block, Gordon A., Jr., 1914-1973, former owner.
Rights: https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
Bibnumber: 9947716593503681

IIIF manifest: https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p3k35md6x/manifest

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS2107

Shelfmark:

Ms. Roll 1563

Title:

Devotional roll

Devotional book

Place:

England

TGN

Date:

14--

fifteenth century (dates CE) Linked Data indicator

AAT

Language:

Latin with some rubrics in Middle English

Latin

WIKIDATA

Middle English Linked Data indicator

WIKIDATA

Material:

parchment

Parchment

AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 1 roll (2 membranes) : parchment ; 1372 x 130 mm

Former Owner(s):

Block, Gordon A., Jr., 1914-1973

Gordon A. Block Junior Linked Data indicator

WIKIDATA

Note:

Ms. roll.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Script: Written in a Gothic script.
Decoration: 3-line initial in blue with red flourishing at top; 2-line initials in blue with red flourishing throughout. Rubrics in red. Some capitals slashed with red. Some prayers and a psalm at the end of the verso have 1-line initials in red and blue.
Origin: Written in England in the 15th century.
A translation of the Latin and transcription of the Middle English is shelved with the manuscript in the manuscript's former box.
Gift of Gordon A. Block, Jr., in memory of his mother Reba Fleisher Block, 1963.

Keyword:

Manuscripts, Renaissance

Prayers and devotions

Devotional literature

Manuscripts, Latin

prayers (literary genre)

scrolls (information artifacts)

Manuscripts, Medieval

Manuscripts, English (Middle)

Prayers

Catholic Church

Latin language