University of Pennsylvania, Ms. Codex 1229

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS971

Shelfmark:

Ms. Codex 1229

Title:

Processional : Dominican use.

Author:

Catholic Church

Catholic Church WIKIDATA

Place:

France

France TGN

Date:

[between 1500 and 1550?]

sixteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin, with some rubrics and directions in French

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 155 leaves : parchment, music ; 140 x 97 (92 x 56) mm bound to 149 x 112 mm

Former Owner(s):

Riley, Athelstan, 1858-1945

Athelstan Riley WIKIDATA

Note:

Origin: Written in France, probably between 1500 and 1550 (Les Enluminures).
Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Script: Written in a hybrid script (larger for liturgical texts, smaller for liturgical directions) and a Gothic script (chant texts).
Layout: Written in 15 long lines and frame-ruled in red ink, or in 5 lines of music with text with bounding lines in red ink; prickings for every other line of text visible on the outer edge of many leaves.
Binding: 16th-century leather, possibly original; covers with a gilt center ornament and blind stamped borders; remnants of two brass fasteners; rebacked (Les Enluminures).
Collation: Parchment, i (paper) + i + 154 + i (paper); 1⁸ (-1) 2⁸ 3⁶ 4-7⁸ 8⁸ (-8) 9-19⁸ 20⁸ (-8); remnants of signatures with letter and leaf number, mostly trimmed, lower right recto; one vertical catchword on the last verso of gathering 6 (f. 45v); modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
Decoration: Rubrics in red; 1-line initials alternately in red and blue; 2-line initials (or one line each chant and text) alternately in red and blue, sometimes with additional flourishes in chant texts; strapwork initials in brown ink for lines of chant and text with acanthus decoration in light brown ink (one infilled with a face in profile (f. 90v).
Formerly owned by Athelstan Riley (signature inside upper cover with date 1886, bookplate f. [i]r).
Sold by Les Enluminures (Paris and Chicago), 2008.
Formerly owned by Sr. Maria de Bouron (signature, f. [ii]r), 17th century?
Sold at auction at Sotheby's, 13 Dec. 1965 (lot 203).

Keyword:

Specimens

Manuscripts, Latin

Prayers and devotions

Manuscripts, Renaissance

Prayers

Choirbooks

Texts

Manuscripts, French

Devotional literature

Gregorian chants

codices (bound manuscripts)

service books (religious texts)

Processionals (Liturgical books)

Gregorian chants--Manuscripts

Catholic Church

Dominican sisters

Monastic and religious life of women

Dominicans

Liturgics

Music--Manuscripts

Institutional Record:

https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9943355713503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p3j678x9f/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania