University of Pennsylvania, Oversize Ms. Codex 1871

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DS ID:

DS2121

Shelfmark:

Oversize Ms. Codex 1871

Title:

Rechnung vom Schiffmeister Ampt.

Author:

Schindler, Sebastian, 16th century

Sebastian Schindler WIKIDATA

Place:

Switzerland

Switzerland TGN

Date:

1585-1586.

sixteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

German; liturgical text on covers in Latin

German WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 16 leaves : paper ; 303 x 103 mm bound to 307 x 110 mm

Note:

Binding: Parchment wallet binding formed from a leaf of a 12th-century noted breviary, probably from Switzerland.
Origin: Written in the Lucerne region of Switzerland (Christie's), from autumn 1585 to autumn 1586 (inscription, front cover; caption title, f. 4r).
Watermark: Heawood, I, Crozier, no. 1174 (Basel, 1545) (Christie's).
Title from caption title (f. 1r).
Collation: Paper, 16; 1(8-1) 2(6) 3(2) 4(2-2); first leaf of first quire and last leaf of last quire are pastedowns; modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto 1-16 (1-3, 11-16 blank).
Script: Written in German cursive script by Sebastian Schindler; liturgical text on covers written in Caroline minuscule.
Decoration: Liturgical text on cover has simple decorated initials and rubrication in red, and initials touched with red.
Ms. codex.
Sold at auction by Christie's (London), 28 November 2011, lot 5.
Sold at auction by Bloomsbury Auctions (London), 7 December 2016, lot 77.

Keyword:

Gregorian chants

Manuscripts, German

codices (bound manuscripts)

Texts

Manuscripts, Renaissance

Manuscripts, Medieval

Manuscripts, Latin

account books

Liturgics

Catholic Church

Switzerland--Lucerne

Gregorian chants--Manuscripts

Institutional Record:

https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9973971753503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p34b2x863/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania