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[Benedictiones episcopales] ... [etc.].

Author/Creator:
Catholic Church.
Publication:
[France], [1475-1525?]
Format/Description:
Manuscript
29 leaves : parchment ; 247 x 184 (187 x 122) mm bound to 252 x 182 mm
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Subjects:
Catholic Church -- Liturgy.
Catholic Church.
Liturgics.
Clergy -- Prayers and devotions.
Bishops.
Form/Genre:
Codices.
Pontificals.
Manuscripts, Latin.
Manuscripts, Renaissance.
Prayers.
Devotional literature.
Language:
Latin.
Summary:
Collection of instructions for bishops. Work 1 is possibly an older variation of the episcopal benedictions found in Fasc. IV of the Roman Pontifical as published by Leo XIII. Includes De patenae et calicis consecratione; De benedictione mapparum, seu linteaminum sacris altaris; De benedictione corporalium; and De benedictione sacrorum vasorum, et aliorum ornamentorum in genere. Work 2 is a portion of the Ordo Romanus, likely copied from a printed edition. Original work was compiled around 730 in France, as an instruction book for clergymen on the performance of various religious ceremonies. Work 3 is a collection of prayers for certain occassions, or concerning certain religious figures, which includes In die natalium domini; De sancto Johanne evangelista; In ascensione domini; In die Penthecosten; In die corpus Xristi; and De sancta Trinitate; as well as daily prayers, prayers to the Virgin Mary, to John the Baptist, to Peter and Paul, concerning the annunciation of Mary, to St. Martin, and for dinner. Although the entire manuscript is French in origin, and the Ordo Romanus seems to have its origins in the practices of French bishops, work 3 specifically references the Gallic rite, "In gallicantu benedictio" (f. 21r).
Contents:
1. f.1r-10r: [Benedictiones episcopales].
2. f.10v-20v: Ordo qualiter se pontifex preparare debeat quando missam celebraturus est.
3. f.21r-29v: Benedictiones pontificales maiorum festivitatum.
Notes:
Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch).
Collation: Parchment, 29; 1⁸ 2⁶ 3⁸(-2) 4⁸; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto. Link to collation model at end of record.
Layout: f. 1-8 written in 23 long lines, f.9-29 written in 19 long lines; ruled in lead.
Script: Written in a Gothic book hand; f. 1-8 in an older, more formal hand, f.9-29 in a later, less decorative hand.
Decoration: Initials (1, 2, 3, 4, or 7 lines each) in red, as well as introductory passages and titles; Greek crosses in red at various points in the text, as on f. 5-7, 29v; on f.1r, first letter of each word in first line embellished.
Binding: Contemporary vellum. Pastedowns inside upper and lower covers from another parchment manuscript in French. Includes stamp inside lower cover with words "Dix Sols Pour" and "Deux Rooles" on either side of a circular fleur-de-lis seal with "GENERALITE" across the bottom.
Origin: Written in France in the late 15th or early 16th century (Zacour Hirsch).
Penn Provenance:
Gift of Albert C. Baugh, 1968.
Cited in:
Described in Zacour, Norman P. and Hirsch, Rudolf. Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Libraries of the University of Pennsylvania to 1800, Supplement A (1). The Library Chronicle 35 (1969), p. 19 (Ms. Latin 248).
Cited as:
UPenn Ms. Codex 1154
Contributor:
Baugh, Albert C. (Albert Croll), 1891-1981, former owner.
Contains:
Catholic Church. Ordines Romani.
OCLC:
223390700