University of Pennsylvania, Oversize LJS 418
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS661
- Shelfmark:
- Oversize LJS 418
- Title:
- Passio sancti Blasii ... etc..
- Place:
- Italy
- Date:
- [12--]
- Language:
- Latin
- Physical Description:
- Extent: 8 leaves : parchment, color illustrations, music ; 334 x 210 (211-238 x 138) mm bound to 344 x 218 mm
- Former Owner(s):
- Schoenberg, Lawrence J
- Note:
- Ms. codex.
Origin: Written in Italy in the 13th century.
Title for manuscript from caption title for predominant work (f. 1r).
Binding: Late 19th- or early 20th-century morocco by Riviere & Son (London).
Music: Contains chants notated with neumes in brown ink positioned relative to a single red line (f. 4v-6r) and neumes without lines (f. 7v-8r).
Decoration: Drawing in brown and red ink of Blaise as a bishop (f. 1r); 2 Guidonian hand diagrams sketched in ink (f. 8v); 4-line zoomorphic initial on a red ground (f. 1r); ornamental initials, 2 to 4 lines in height, in green-brown ink (f. 6v-7v); 2-line initials and single lines in chant in red (f. 4v-6r); rubrics in red and capitals touched in red (f. 1r-6r).
Script: Written in rounded Gothic script, largely by one hand (f. 1-5), with additions at the end possibly by other hands.
Layout: Written in 2 columns (f. 1-7) of 32 lines (f. 1-5); frame-ruled in lead (f. 1-5), faint ink (f. 6), and drypoint (f. 7); prickings visible.
Collation: Parchment, ii (modern parchment) + 8 + ii (modern parchment); 1⁸.
Gift of Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2010.
Sold at auction at Sotheby's, 19 June 2001, lot 32, to Lawrence J. Schoenberg.
Sold by Dawson's Book Shop (Los Angeles, Calif.) to Albert Elkus of the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, Sept. 1933.
Appears in Maggs Bros. cat. 542 (1930), no. 53. - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9949544423503681
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p3gm0j/manifest
- Holding Institution:
