General Theological Seminary, 02 Western

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS313

Shelfmark:

02 Western

Title:

Gradual and Antiphonary

Place:

Mexico

Mexico TGN

Date:

1645; s. XVII(med); 1640-1660

seventeenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Binding: Limp vellum with 4 stitches visible on the outside. Pastedowns: printed material in Spanish and Latin. Flyeaves: thin white paper with fleur-de-lis watermarks.
Other decoration, ff. 1-18v: On f. 1v: painted gold initial on red background, with gold foliage. Strapwork on capital letters throughout.
Number of scribes, ff. 1-18v: 1.
Script, ff. 1-18v: Gothic.
Music, ff. 1-18v: Red 5 line staves with square black notes.
Layout, ff. 1-18v: 5 lines of text and music.
Watermarks, ff. 1-18v: None on manuscript itself (fleur-de-lis watermark on flyleaves).

Note:

Bibliography: Manuel Ramos Medina. Imagen de Santidad en un Mundo Profano Mexcio, DF: Universidad Iberoamericana, 1990, p. 91, discussing the high regard the viceroys of Mexico held for the prioress, Bernarda de San Juan, under whose direction this book was made.
ff. 1-18v: Manuscript dated 1645 on f. 1r. Folio 16 is a printed page, 300 x 215mm, containing a mass for St. Joseph: "Romae, Ex Typographia Reverendae Camerae Apost. M. DC. LXXX [on the following line:] Superiorum Permissu, Mexici, apud Ioannem de Ribera. Anno 1681."
ff. 1-18v: Latin.
ff. 1r-15v, f. 16r-v (printed), f. 17 r-v: Feasts included: St. Elijah the Leader and Our Father, St. Teresa the Virgin (of Avila), and St. Joseph the Confessor.

Institutional Record:

https://archive.org/details/02Western_23

IIIF Manifest:

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Holding Institution:

General Theological Seminary