Western Michigan University, Newberry / WMU MS 4

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS6379

Shelfmark:

Newberry / WMU MS 4

Title:

In festo corpis xpi [christi] ad us[um] d[om]i[n]i

Author:

Catholic Church

Catholic Church WIKIDATA

Date:

ca. 1490].

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

In Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 131 unnumbered leaves, bound : parchment, color illustrations ; 17 cm

Note:

Title from rubricated heading on first leaf of text (leaf [2]).
Date suggested by style of handwriting and capital flourishes, and by calendar arrangement: i.e., ms. includes feasts of St. Dionysius and the Conception of the Virgin as single celebrations, first celebrated as such in 1481 and 1491, respectively; but lacks the observance of the feast of St. Servatius as a single celebration, a practice which dates from 1498, thus suggesting possible range of...
First line of text (leaf [2]): "Sacerdos in eternu[m] xps [christus] d[omin]us s[e]c[un]d[u]m ordine[m] melchisedechi panem [et] uinam obtulit."
First line of calendar (leaf [9]): "Marci[us] h[abet] dies xxxi luna xxx."
Calendar in red and black, with large red and blue capitals at head of each page, most with interlacing pen flourishes in blue; following calendar is a table for computing the date of Easter each year, in red and black, with folded fore-edge; and two diagrams for assigning Dominical Letters and Golden Numbers, also in red and black.
Text in a single hand, in a southwestern German "bastarda" script in black ink; leaves lightly ruled in brown; large red and blue capitals, some pen-flourished, or decorated with flowers, leaves, plumes, or trailing branches; smaller red and blue initials throughout text; captions and section numbers in red.
Upper margin of recto of leaf [103] contains a small pen-and-ink drawing in red, blue and brown ink, of two birds atop a pair of acanthus leaves, pecking a berry.
Last three leaves are blank; inscription on last leaf: "Logos Xhrist[us]."
Calendar leaf for January/February wanting.
Portions of leaves [17], [18], [50], [52], [108]-[111] have been slashed or cut out.

Keyword:

Manuscripts, Latin

Prayer books

Catholic Church

Dominicans--Prayers and devotions--Early works to 1800

Devotional literature, Latin (Medieval and modern)

Illumination of books and manuscripts

Institutional Record:

https://primo-pmtna01.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/f/4vcoc/01WMU_ALMA21100299800002436

IIIF Manifest:

https://luna.library.wmich.edu/luna/servlet/iiif/m/WMUwmu~77~77~1222455~160094/manifest

Holding Institution:

Western Michigan University