Details

Subjects:

Catholic Church -- Prayers and devotions -- Early works to 1800.
Catholic Church.
Lord's Supper -- Prayers and devotions -- Early works to 1800.
Lord's Supper.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Hymns.
Prayers.
Prayer books.
Manuscripts, German.
Manuscripts, European.
Prayers and devotions.
Devotional literature.

Language:

German, except for quotations in Latin below pictures.

Summary:

Compendium of Catholic prayers for different times and purposes, such as prayers for morning and evening (p. 1, 16), for during mass (p. 21), for before and after confession (p. 36, 61), and for before and after communion (p. 71, 97); prayers to various saints (St. Joseph, p. 151; St. Magdalena, p. 152); devotional prayers (Andachtsübung zu der allerheiligsten Dreifaltigkeit, p. 171; Anbetung des allerheiligsten Sacrament des Altars, p. 188); and various services and litanies for communal worship (Kürze Tageszeit von der unbefleckten Empfängnus Maria zu der Metten, p. 122; Litanei vom Namen Jesu, p. 182), with inclusion of texts designated as hymns (Hymnus, p. 126, 128). A table of contents, listing categories of prayers, is included (Register, p. 255-256).

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Pagination: Paper, iii + 129 + iii; 1-56, [i], 57-81, 81-101, 103-254, [255-256]; contemporary pagination in ink, modern pagination in pencil, upper outer corners.
Layout: Written in 21-27 long lines; frame-ruled in red ink.
Script: Written in a German cursive hand.
Decoration: Engravings in red ink of the crucifixion (pasted opposite f. 1r), by artist Rem[m?]ele, with quotation below: Cum dilexisset suos, in finem dilexit eos (John 13:1); and of St. Matthew (pasted on leaf between pp. 56 and 57), by engraver Joseph Gebhard, with quotation below: Tertium animal habens faciem quasi hominus (Revelation 4:7). Titles of prayers and occasional initials, as well as the last word, Amen (p. 254), in red ink.
Binding: Contemporary gilt morocco (Zacour-Hirsch), with the name of the original owner, Magdalena Erbsin, and the date 1777 embossed on the cover.
Origin: Written in Germany in 1777.

Penn Provenance:

Gift of G. J. M. Fuhrman, 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. 90 (Ms. German 53).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 1145.

Contributor:

Gebhard, Joseph, engraver.

OCLC:

216883858

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