Details

Subjects:

Kölner Dom.
Catholic Church -- Liturgy -- Texts.
Catholic Church.
Liturgics.
Gregorian chants -- Manuscripts.
Gregorian chants.
Breviaries.
Breviaries -- Specimens.
Cologne (Germany) -- Church history.

Form/Genre:

Texts.
Codices.
Annotations.
Breviaries.
Choirbooks.
Devotional calendars.
Gregorian chants.
Manuscripts, Latin.
Manuscripts, Renaissance.
Specimens.

Language:

Latin.

Summary:

Breviary for use in the diocese of Cologne, probably in the Kölner Dom (cathedral). Made in the 15th century, it was used, annotated, and repaired through to the end of the 18th century. The breviary is preceded by a calendar in which the feasts of Saint Gereon and the Eleven Thousand Virgins, martyrs of Cologne, and of Saint Severin, an early bishop of Cologne, are written in red. The Sanctoral in the breviary itself includes offices for a number of saints associated with Cologne and for the Translation of the Three Kings, associated with relics kept on the high altar of the cathedral. The breviary includes foliation, headings, and annotations in 16th- through 18th-century hands, some of which were trimmed for the manuscript's current binding. It also includes burns (f. 23-24), marks from candle wax in night offices, and numerous parchment repairs to page edges. Chant tunes are written in Hufnagelschrift neumes on 4-line staves that are anachronistically ruled in color (brown, red, black, and yellow). Accompanying the manuscript is a device for marking several pages simultaneously, consisting of a small dowel with 6 cords knotted around it. The cords may have had decorative knotted ends originally, but all but one are now frayed.

Contents:

1. f.1r-5v: [Calendar, lacking leaf for July-August].
2. f.6r-11v: [Invitatories for matins, prayers with benedictions, suffrages for principal feasts].
3. f.12r-18v: [Antiphons for first three Sundays in Advent].
4. f.19r-280r: [Notated breviary].
5. f.280r-286r: [Hymns].
6. f.287r-290r: Festum purificationis Marie virginis.
7. f.290r-294r: In festo visitacionis gloriose virginis Marie.
8. f.294v: [Partial list of contents, 1751].
9. f.295r: Festo sanctissimi nominis Mariae, 1745.
10. f.296r-300r: Festum sanctissimi nominis Iesu.
11. f.301r-303r: In festo exaltationis sanctae crucis.
12. f.303v: Festo compassionis beatae Mariae virginis.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Collation: Parchment, iii (paper) + 294 + 9 (paper) + i (paper); 1⁴(-4) 2⁸ 3⁶ 4¹ 5-13¹² 14¹²(-6,-7) 15¹⁴(-4,-7,-8,-10,-11) 16¹²(-1,-2,-3) 17¹² 18¹⁰ 19-22¹² 23¹²(-11) 24-27¹² 28³ 29⁸ 30¹⁰ (+1, -10 pastedown); 16th- or 17th-century foliation in ink, [iii (paper), v], 1-13, 15-21, [22], 23-127, 130-139, 141, 143-145, 149-202, 205, 204-246, 246-287, [288], 289-296, [x], upper center recto; modern foliation in pencil, [iii, 302, i], upper right recto. References in this record are to modern foliation. Link to collation model at end of record.
Layout: Written in 2 columns of 53 lines or 21 staves ruled in lead, with the lines of the staves ruled in brown, red, black, and yellow ink.
Script: Written in a Gothic bookhand; chant tunes written in Hufnagelschrift neumes.
Decoration: Large puzzle initials in red and blue with red and lilac flourishing at the beginning of offices or texts (f. 6r, 12r, 22v, 37v, 88v, 106v, 110v, 157r, 270r, 280r). In text, 2-line red and blue initials alternate throughout; in chant, initials the height of one staff plus text are red, blue, or calligraphic with red.
Binding: German 17th-century paneled pigskin tooled in blind, with brass cornerpieces, bosses, and two catches and clasps, one clasp detached (Christie's).
Origin: Written in Germany, probably Cologne, in the mid-15th century (Christie's); later additions up to 1794 (f. 299r).

Local notes:

Purchased with support from the B. H. Breslauer Foundation.
Lawrence J. Schoenberg & Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative.

Penn Provenance:

Sold at auction at Christie's, 4 June 2008, lot 44.

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 1233

OCLC:

235970975

Web link:

The Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative Fund Home Page

Collation model