Details

Subjects:

Catholic Church -- Liturgy -- Texts.
Catholic Church.
Liturgics.

Form/Genre:

Texts.
Codices.
Litanies (prayers)
Prayers.
Manuscripts, Latin.
Manuscripts, European.

Language:

Latin.

Summary:

Service to be spoken in the church before those who have been condemned to death (f. 1r-5v), with a litany of the Virgin (f. 6r-7v), and some additional prayers in later hands: Egressa anima de corpore (f. 8r), Oratio (f. 8v), Confirma hoc Deus (f. 9r), and an oath, Adjuratio (f. 9v).

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title from caption title for first work (f. 1r).
Foliation: Parchment, 10; [1-10]; modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto.
Script: Written in a cursive script by four different hands.
Binding: Contemporary vellum, with painted medallions in center of covers almost entirely rubbed off.
Origin: Written in Bologna[?], ca. 1600 (Zacour-Hirsch).

Penn Provenance:

Acquired, 1960.

Cited in:

Described in Zacour, Norman P. and Hirsch, Rudolf. Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Libraries of the University of Pennsylvania to 1800 (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1965) p. 34 (Ms. Latin 147).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 654

Contains:

Litaniae B. M. V. quae in sacro aede lauretana canuntur.
Egressa anima de corpore.
Confirma hoc deus.
Adjuratio.

OCLC:

209985050