Details

Subjects:

Catholic Church -- Liturgy -- Texts.
Catholic Church.
Liturgics.
Monastic and religious life of women.
Magnificat (Music).
Antiphons (Music).
Hymns, Latin.
Gregorian chants -- Manuscripts.
Gregorian chants.
Hymns, Latin -- Early works to 1800.
Antiphons (Music) -- Early works to 1800.
Magnificat (Music) -- Early works to 1800.
Monastic and religious life of women -- Early works to 1800.
Andenne (Belgium) -- Church history.

Form/Genre:

Texts.
Codices.
Coats of arms.
Gregorian chants.
Prayers.
Litanies (prayers)
Hymnals.
Manuscripts, Latin -- 16th century.
Manuscripts, Latin -- 17th century.
Manuscripts, Renaissance.
Manuscripts, European.

Language:

Latin, with a few headings in French.

Summary:

Hymns, antiphons, a litany, etc. beginning with Audi Domine; including Hodie beata virgo Maria; Ave virgo stella maris; Magnificat; Adoramus te Christe; Homo quidam fecit; Exsurge domine; Parce ce domine, parce ce populo tuo; Lux perpetua; Pueri Hebreorum and others; the earliest part of the manuscript ending with Inundaverunt; all with plain chant notation. Additions in later hands (f. 136r-161r), include the Pange lingua; Anthiene de St. Roch [sic] (with music, incipit: Ave Roche); a prayer, Ora pro nobis beata pater Roche; Veni creator spiritus (without music); and an index to 88 hymns and antiphons in a 17th-century hand (f. 166-167). Also includes: Repond que l'on chante à la reception d'une nouvelle doÿenne, with plain chant notation in a 17th-century hand (f. i recto). The chants are from a chapter of secular canonesses in Andenne (chapitre noble des chanoinesses d'Andenne), but not copied in liturgical order.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch).
Foliation: Parchment and paper, i (paper endleaf) + 5 (paper) + 163 (parchment) + 10 (paper) + i (paper endleaf); [vii], 1-161, [162-171]; 17th-century foliation in ink, upper right recto; some foliation lost due to trimmed edges. There may be folios or quires missing between f. 48-49 and 138-139.
Script: Written in Gothic and humanistic scripts by numerous hands.
Decoration: Rubricated headings, initials, and capitals; 3 coats of arms painted in color; 2 in watercolor on paper (f. ii recto, f. iii recto), and an earlier coat of arms on parchment, (f. vii recto) dated 1566.
Binding: 17th- or 18th-century calf, split along spine.
Origin: Written in Andenne, Belgium in the 16th and 17th centuries (Anne-Emmanuelle Ceulemans).

Penn Provenance:

Possibly originally owned by the Chapitre noble des chanoinesses d'Andenne, a community of secular, noble-born canonesses in Andenne (Anne-Emmanuelle Ceulemans).
Formerly owned by Robert de Mol (coat of arms dated 1566, f. vii recto) and the De Noot family (f. iii recto), both connected with Andenne (Anne-Emmanuelle Ceulemans).
Formerly held in the Bibliotheca Elseghemensis (late 19th- or early 20th-century bookplate, with attribution Lith. N. Heins. Gand, inside upper cover), in Elseghem or Elsegem in East Flanders, Belgium, near Ghent.
Gift of Albert C. Baugh, 1965.

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), Supplement A (1), Library Chronicle 35 (1969), pp. 9-10 (Ms. Latin 218).

Publications about:

Ceulemans, Anne-Emmanuelle. "La messe et l’office de sainte Begge au chapitre noble d’Andenne." Revue belge de musicologie / Belgisch Tijdschrift voor Muziekwetenschap 67 (2013): pp. 27-48, at 34-35.

Cited as:

Collection of Hymns and Antiphons (Ms. Codex 713). Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts.

Contributor:

Mol, Robert de, 16th century, former owner.
Baugh, Albert C. (Albert Croll), 1891-1981, former owner.

Contains:

Ave Roche.

OCLC:

155985474

Access Restriction:

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