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This manuscript contains the Office of the Dead for a German Dominican convent, possibly in Augsburg, with some chant notation on four-line staves and extensive instructions for the performance of the Office written in German in red ink. It was written in Germany in the mid-15th century in textualis script and has alternating red and blue initials. Small finding tabs of fabric, leather, and metal have been added to the fore edge for navigation.
Support: Parchment; Extent: i+124+i; 128 x 95 mm bound to 131 x 96 mm; Foliation: Modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto, with a partial leaf foliated 42 bis between 42 and 43; Collation: 1 (10, -1), 2-4 (10), 5 (11, +3), 6-7 (10), 8 (11, +10), 9 (12), 10 (10), 11 (11, +10), 12 (10); Catchwords: On last verso of quires, lower right corner, in red when in a rubric
One column of fourteen lines or of five staves with notation and text; ruled in ink; written area: 85 x 58 mm
Gothic--textualis
One- and two-line initials in alternating red and blue; rubrication and stave lines in red
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Latin, with German rubrics
Front flyleaf foliated as 1 and back flyleaf foliated as 125; first leaf of manuscript missing between modern fols. 1 and 2; modern fols. 1 and 125 not included in collation
Small finding tabs of metal, leather, or fabric on outer edges of folios
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.
Augsburg?, Germany
Saint Udalric of Augsburg included in litany (fol. 25v, Wolf); circa 1450
Contemporary stamped leather over wooden boards; image of angel, perhaps with a book, in the stamps on the front cover
Latin; Middle High German (ca. 1050-1500)
Barbara Hackenmayrin of Ulm, 15th century (inscription, front flyleaf); late nineteenth- or early twentieth-century bookplate of Alphonse Labitte; W. C. Crane sale, Anderson Galleries, New York, Dec. 9, 1912, no. 395; John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia; given by his widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1936
Augsburg?, Germany
Saint Udalric of Augsburg included in litany (fol. 25v, Wolf); circa 1450
Latin; Middle High German (ca. 1050-1500)
Barbara Hackenmayrin of Ulm, 15th century
This manuscript contains the Office of the Dead for a German Dominican convent, possibly in Augsburg, with some chant notation on four-line staves and extensive instructions for the performance of the Office written in German in red ink. It was written in Germany in the mid-15th century in textualis script and has alternating red and blue initials. Small finding tabs of fabric, leather, and metal have been added to the fore edge for navigation.
Latin, with German rubrics
Front flyleaf foliated as 1 and back flyleaf foliated as 125; first leaf of manuscript missing between modern fols. 1 and 2; modern fols. 1 and 125 not included in collation
Small finding tabs of metal, leather, or fabric on outer edges of folios
Gothic--textualis
One- and two-line initials in alternating red and blue; rubrication and stave lines in red
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.
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