Details

Subjects:

Catholic Church -- Prayers and devotions -- Early works to 1800.
Catholic Church -- Liturgy -- Texts.
Catholic Church.
Benedictines.
Liturgics.
Benedictines -- Liturgy.
Gregorian chants -- Manuscripts.
Gregorian chants.
Elchingen (Germany).

Form/Genre:

Texts.
Codices.
Choirbooks.
Gregorian chants.
Finding tabs.
Manuscripts, Latin.
Manuscripts, Renaissance.
Prayers and devotions.
Prayers.
Devotional literature.

Language:

Latin.

Summary:

Benedictine manuscript containing texts for Matins and Lauds from the Commemorative Office of the Virgin. This version of the Office was said most often on Saturday in place of the usual Office of the day. Also contains the Office of the Dead accompanied by musical notation for the chants. The manuscript once had leather finding tabs flush to the edge of the leaves, all but one (f. 96) of which have been torn out (for example, f. 1, 7, 69).

Contents:

1. f.2r
54r: Antiphona et responsoria et lectiones de commune beate Marie semper virginis, a festo puificationis et ab octava penthecostes usque ad adventum Domini, ad matutinas.
2. f.54v-64v: Lectiones infra tricesimum [assumptionis] beate Mariae semper virginis.
3. f.70r-81r: De commune beatae mariae semper virginis post octavas epiphaniae usque ad purificationem.
4. f.84v-95r: Psalmos omnes tam ad mattutinas quam ad laudes, ymnos, cantica, Te Deum laudamus, omnia secundum ordinem.
5. f.97r: Kyrie eleison.
6. f.97v-107v: Antiphona ad Placebo, ad vigilias, et ad laudes, una cum responsoriis [Officium pro defunctis].
7. f.108r-108v: In die depositionis ingrediendo ecclesia; Dum defertur funus ad sepulchrum [Later additions of chants for burial].

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Collation: Paper, 131; 1⁶(-1) 2¹⁰ 3⁶ 4¹⁰ 5⁶ 6¹⁰ 7-9⁶ 10¹⁰(-1) 11-13⁸ 14⁸(+1) 15⁸(-2) 16¹⁰ 17⁸; contemporary foliation in red ink, upper center recto, 1-5, 7, 6, 8-53, 53--66, [67], 68-76, 78-94, [i], 95-96 (=f. 2-98); modern foliation in pencil, [v, 1-126], upper right recto. References in this record are to modern foliation. Catchwords on almost every page, lower right recto or verso. Link to collation model at end of record.
Layout: Written in 2 columns of 27 lines (f. 2r-95v) and 2 columns of 6 staves (f. 97v-107v); frame-ruled in red ink with text ruled in lead.
Script: Written in a German Gothic script by Georg Keysser (f. 96r).
Decoration: 3 full-page borders in colored inks with architectural columns (f. 1v, 54v, 69v); 5-line initial and full scrollwork border in colored inks (f. 2r); 8-line initial in colored inks and first words in display uncials in red ink (f. 84v); 2-line initial in 2 colors and knotwork design in colored inks (f. 96r); 1- to 3-line initials in various colors throughout; rubrication, foliation, and frame-ruling in red ink.
Music: Contains Hufnagelschrift notation on 5-line staves in the Office of the Dead (f. 97r-107v), with later additions in square notation on 4-line staves (f. 108r-108v).
Binding: Original 16th-century vellum over pasteboard, gold-stamped with stamps of the Annunciation (upper cover) and the Nativity (lower cover) and gold-tooled borders; remnants of 2 pairs of ties.
Origin: Written in the Benedictine abbey in Elchingen (Bavaria), in 1596 (f. 96r).

Penn Provenance:

Held in the abbey library no later than 1802, when the monastery was secularized and the contents of its library sent to Munich.
Sold by Les Enluminures (Paris and Chicago), 2011.

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 1589

Contributor:

Keysser, Georg, scribe.

OCLC:

704438791

Web link:

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