The Digital Walters is a branch of The Walters Art Museum Manuscripts Department.
This large Diurnal Antiphonal, produced in Italy in the fifteenth century, contains Ferial material for the recitation of the Office from Prime through Vespers. Its final folio and a stub preceding it contain unrelated fragmentary material.
Support: Parchment; Extent: i+102+i; 579 x 383 mm bound to 610 x 412 mm; Foliation: Modern foliation in pencil (imperfect), upper right corner; Collation: 1 (8), 2-9 (10), 10 (8), 11 (7, +5 +6 +7); Catchwords: Catchwords in center of lower margin at folios: 7v, 16v, 25v, 35v, 44v, 53av, 61av, 71v, 81v, and 89v
One column of fifteen lines, ruled in ink; written area: 387 x 255 mm
Gothic--rotunda
Large historiated initial with King David enthroned on fol. 23r; large initial presumably excised from fol. 53av; two-to-three-line penwork initials throughout
For a full list of Decorations in this manuscript please see the Content and Decorations section by clicking on the [i] button in the top left corner of the image viewer above.
Leaves count of 102 includes unlabeled and skipped folios, except for binding waste stub found before final leaf
Fol. 94r is a fourteenth-century bifolio from a collection of pastoral material, including a sermon of Saint Augustine; the preceding stub is a fragment of late-thirteenth- or early-fourteenth-century Breviary
These are pages that we pulled aside that disrupted the flow of the manuscript reader. These may be bindings, inserts, bookmarks, and various other oddities.
Italy
15th century
Original wooden boards and leather with metal bosses and corner pieces, titulus placard on lower front cover: "Diurno"
Latin
Loganian Library, Philadelphia (later The Library Company of Philadelphia)
Italy
15th century
Latin
Loganian Library, Philadelphia
This large Diurnal Antiphonal, produced in Italy in the fifteenth century, contains Ferial material for the recitation of the Office from Prime through Vespers. Its final folio and a stub preceding it contain unrelated fragmentary material.
Leaves count of 102 includes unlabeled and skipped folios, except for binding waste stub found before final leaf
Fol. 94r is a fourteenth-century bifolio from a collection of pastoral material, including a sermon of Saint Augustine; the preceding stub is a fragment of late-thirteenth- or early-fourteenth-century Breviary
Gothic--rotunda
Large historiated initial with King David enthroned on fol. 23r; large initial presumably excised from fol. 53av; two-to-three-line penwork initials throughout
For a full list of Decorations in this manuscript please see the Content and Decorations section by clicking on the [i] button in the top left corner of the image viewer above.
These are pages that we pulled aside that disrupted the flow of the manuscript reader. These may be bindings, inserts, bookmarks, and various other oddities.
Clear All
