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Metadata

DS ID:

DS661

Shelfmark:

Oversize LJS 418

Title:

Passio s[an]c[t]i Blasii ... [etc.

Passio sancti Blasii

Place:

Italy

Italy TGN

Date:

12--

thirteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Material:

parchment, color illustrations, music

Parchment AAT

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

Lawrence J. Schoenberg WIKIDATA

Note:

Ms. codex.
Title for manuscript from caption title for predominant work (f. 1r).
Collation: Parchment, ii (modern parchment) + 8 + ii (modern parchment); 18.
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.
Script: Written in rounded Gothic script, largely by one hand (f. 1-5), with additions at the end possibly by other hands.
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).
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).
Binding: Late 19th- or early 20th-century morocco by Riviere & Son (London).
Origin: Written in Italy in the 13th century.
Appears in Maggs Bros. cat. 542 (1930), no. 53.
Sold by Dawson's Book Shop (Los Angeles, Calif.) to Albert Elkus of the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, Sept. 1933.
Sold at auction at Sotheby's, 19 June 2001, lot 32, to Lawrence J. Schoenberg.
Gift of Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2010.

Keyword:

hagiographies (literary genre)

diagrams

codices (bound manuscripts)

Manuscripts, Latin

Manuscripts, Medieval

Texts

Gregorian chants

Biographies

drawings (visual works)

Blaise, Saint, -approximately 316

Christian saints

Early works

Catholic Church

Liturgics

Christian saints--Biography

Gregorian chants--Manuscripts

Institutional Record:

https://find.library.upenn.edu/catalog/9949544423503681

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Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania