Details

Subjects:

Catholic Church -- Liturgy -- Texts.
Catholic Church.
Liturgics.
Service books (Music) -- Catholic Church.
Catholic Church -- Prayers and devotions -- Early works to 1800.
Funeral rites and ceremonies.
Funeral service -- Catholic Church.
Gregorian chants -- Manuscripts.
Gregorian chants.
Service books (Music) -- Catholic Church -- Early works to 1800.
Cologne (Germany) -- Church history.

Form/Genre:

Texts.
Codices.
Gregorian chants.
Service books (religious texts)
Manuscripts, Latin.
Manuscripts, Renaissance.
Prayers and devotions.
Prayers.
Devotional literature.

Language:

Latin.

Summary:

German manuscript containing texts and chants for the Office of the Dead (Officium pro defunctis), the funeral service for a priest, and the Divine Office. The lessons and responses in the Office of the Dead seem to be related to those used in a small group of manuscripts from the Diocese of Cologne, and the arrangement of the psalms for the Divine Office in the ferial psalter suggest that this manuscript was made for use by secular priests, such as members of a cathedral chapter, or Premonstratensian or Augustinian Canons (Les Enluminures). The volume concludes with the text for the Hours of the Virgin, whose use is unidentified but which contains a suffrage of Saint Nicholas (f. 64v), and a copy of Psalm 64 by a later hand (f. 65v).

Contents:

1. f.1r-22v: [Officium pro defunctis, lacking beginning]
2. f.22v-25v: [Alternate lessons for the Officium pro defunctis to be read during Lent]
3. f.22v-35v: [Psalms and prayers in commemoration of the dead]
4. f.36r-44v: [Funeral service for a priest]
5. f.45r-55v: [Ferial psalter, Matins and Lauds]
6. f.55v-58v: [Ferial psalter, Vespers]
7. f.59r-59v: [Ferial psalter, Prime, Terce, Sext, None]
8. f.60r-65r: [Hours of the Virgin]
9. f.65v: [Psalm 64]

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger (Les Enluminures).
Collation: Parchment, 65; 1⁸(-1) 2-7⁸ 8⁶ 9²(-1) 10⁴(-1); [1-65]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto. Link to collation model at end of record.
Layout: Written in 20 long lines; frame-ruled in lead, sometimes with additional full horizontal lines below the second line or above the second line from the bottom. Prickings visible on many leaves.
Script: Written in a Gothic book script, except for a later addition in a Gothic cursive script (f. 65v).
Decoration: Cadel (strapwork or knotwork) initials in black with black flourishing, often including faces in profile, and red highlights in musical text; rubrics and 1- to 3-line initials in text; initials within text stroked with red.
Music: Contains Hufnagelschrift notation on 5-line staves with a red F-line.
Binding: 18th- or early 19th-century vellum over pasteboard (Les Enluminures).
Origin: Written in Germany, possibly in the diocese of Cologne, between 1425 and 1450 (Les Enluminures).

Local notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Otto E. Albrecht Memorial Fund.
Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.
Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Martin and Margy Meyerson Endowment Fund for Special Collections.
Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Julia B. Leisenring Book Fund.

Penn Provenance:

Sold by Les Enluminures (Paris and Chicago), 2011.

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 1602

Contributor:

Otto E. Albrecht Memorial Fund.
Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

OCLC:

746025154

Web link:

The Martin and Margy Meyerson Endowment Fund for Special Collections Home Page

The Julia B. Leisenring Book Fund Home Page

The Otto E. Albrecht Memorial Fund Home Page

The Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund Home Page

Collation model