Pepperdine University, M2147.H563 1572
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS30375
- Shelfmark:
- M2147.H563 1572
- Title:
- Untitled Franciscan antiphonal, 1572, with additions from 1662 and 1798] /
- Place:
- Seville, Spain
- Date:
- 1572.
- Language:
- Text in Latin
- Material:
- parchment
- Physical Description:
- Extent: 1 choir book (162 p.) : parchment ; 49 x 32 cm
- Note:
- First page has inscription that reads: "Hic est sanctorale secundumconsuetudinem ordinis fra[trum] franciscus. In festo sancti Andre ad vesperas a.," followed by statement of responsibility. Translates roughly to: "This is the sanctuary, according to the custom of the order of Brother Francis. On the feast of St. Andre in the evenings a."
Page numbers appear only on right-sided pages.
Black, blue, red and gold ink.
Pastedown leaf from the 17th-century manuscript also used as the back pastedown.
First leaf folded in half length-wise and pasted down on the original pastedown; with another paper leaf pasted on the verso of the second leaf.
18th-century foliation, 1-163 (including the missing f. 56 in the count), missing two leaves.
Includes index, added on front pastedown in 1798.
Signature: i-vi8vii2viii8[-6, f. 56, with loss of text] ix-x8xi3 [beginning f. 75, added leaves] xii4xiii8[-1, before f. 82, with loss of text] xiv6xv-xvii8 xviii8[-7, one leaf following f. 124, cancelled no loss] xix8xx8[-8, one leaf following f. 140, cancelled with no loss of text] xxi3xxii4xxiii2xxiv4 [quires 25-28, ff. 154-163v, are added leaves]: xxv2xxvi4xxvii2xxviii2)
Ruled in lead with the top and bottom horizontal rules full across, double full-length vertical bounding lines. Written in a large formal rounded liturgical gothic script, square musical notation on red five-line staves, red rubrics, numerous decorative cadel initials (equivalent to one-line of text and a stave). Numerous large red or blue initials with very refined pen work in the opposite...
Decorative frontispiece with a large 122 mm.-high parted red and blue initial with decorative infilling of vine scrolls, flowers, and leaves (in white with shading) and pen work in red and blue, and an 'L'-shaped pen work border extending the full length of the outer and lower margins, with a circular medallion in the middle with a coat of arms (possibly added, not the Ribera family arms...
Massive early binding of brown leather over heavy wooden boards, dating from 1798 with seven brass fittings on each board (brass corner pieces, two on fore edge, and large center ornament with a cross and an arm, remnants of two clasps and straps (fastened front to back), spine with six raised bands, remarkable short decoratively-shaped metal rod with three ribbon place markers sewn into the...
Title derived by cataloger.
Made for an Andalusian noblewoman of the Ribera family, a Franciscan Abbess, Catalinade Ribera, signed by the scribe Alonso Ruiz in 1572. Catalina's convent is not mentioned, but two of the oldest convents in Seville were founded especially for the daughters of the nobility, and are likely possibilities: Santa Clara, founded in 1289 by King Sancho IV of Castille, and Santa Inés, founded in...
Provenance information provided by bookseller, Les Enluminures. Additional information can be found here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1v1FDrh3ualY1eC-qOf8ok6PIu7M6mQpG/view?usp=sharing - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://pepperdine.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1277087026
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/pepperdine/iiif/8ed180e9-9d1e-4ca4-98ea-f6c4e16d1cae/manifest
- Holding Institution:
