[Cistercian liturgical psalter].

Format:

• Book
• Manuscript

Author/Creator:

• Cistercians.

Contributor:

• Mast, Katherina, 15th century, scribe.
• Baugh, Albert C. (Albert Croll), 1891-1981, former owner.

Language:

Latin

Subjects (All):

• Catholic Church--Liturgy--Texts.
• Catholic Church.
• Liturgics.
• Psalters.
• Psalters--Specimens.
• Gregorian chants--Manuscripts.
• Gregorian chants.

Genre:

• Texts.
• Manuscripts, Latin.
• Manuscripts, Medieval.
• Codices.
• Psalters.
• Gregorian chants.
• Specimens.

Penn Provenance:

• Gift of Albert Croll Baugh, 1965.

Physical Description:

399 leaves : parchment, music, illustrations ; 120 x 85 (101 x 64) mm bound to 130 x 92 mm

Other Title:

Missal

Place of Publication:

[Belgium], [between 1475 and 1499?]

Language Note:

Latin.

Summary:

Psalter, with musical notation for two measures of intonation for most psalms, in a hand different from that of the text. Section of hymns, without music. Full musical notation for Subvenite Sancti Dei, responsory for the burial service, and Chorus angelorum (f. 226-229); last section comprised of proper texts from the temporal and sanctoral cycles.

Notes:

• Ms. codex.
• Title supplied by cataloger.
• Foliation: Parchment, ii (modern paper) + 399 + ii (modern paper); [1-399]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto. Folio or section of folios missing between f. 229 and f. 230.
• Layout: Written in 20 lines long lines, in one hand, rubricated throughout. Some music and annotations in a second, nearly contemporary hand.
• Script: Written in Gothic book script by Katherina Mast, Cistercian sister with associations to the Cistercian abbeys of Valliers and Hertogendal and Valduc (Peter Kidd; f. 229v). Musical notation at the bottoms of a number of leaves in a second hand.
• Decoration: Rubricated, with initials and capitals in red and blue throughout; 2-line, 3-line, 6-line and 7-line initials in red and blue with contrasting filigree.
• Binding: Modern calf. Pages have been trimmed resulting in loss at the top of folios at the beginning, with some marginal annotations and musical notation lost throughout.
• Origin: Probably written in the diocese of Liège in the late 15th century (identification of scribe by Peter Kidd).

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), Supplement A (1), p. 10 (Ms. Latin 219).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 655.

OCLC:

155985329

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