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This is a late sixteenth-century Spanish liturgical psalter. It contains the Psalms of the Sunday Office of Matins through None with antiphons and responses throughout the year. There is musical notation for the Te Deum and for the Hymns, antiphons, and responses at Prime and Terce.
Support: Parchment; Extent: 118; 455 x 325 mm bound to 495 x 350 mm; Foliation: Contemporary foliation in red, in upper right corner, recto, mostly lost or obliterated due to repairs and rubbing; later foliation in brown ink in either lower right or lower left corner, recto; Collation: 1 (10, -2 -8), 2-5 (8), 6 (4), 7-9 (8), 10 (10, -8), 11-14 (8), 15 (10, -1)
Single column, eighteen lines, each line of text with double rulings: a pair of lines, in lead, enclosing the body of the text, centered between a second pair of lines ruled in ink; double vertical and horizontal bounding lines in ink as well as double vertical bounding lines in lead; leaves with musical notation: single column, six lines of five-line staves, with vertical bounding lines in hardpoint or lead; written area: 402 x 230 mm
Gothic -- textualis
One five-line initial beginning the text and smaller simple initials in red marking sections throughout; staves in red with square, black neumes; rubrication throughout; guide letters for rubricator visible inside or beside most initials
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.
Foliation in brown ink skipped for fol. 115; fols. 115-118 corrected underneath in pencil
Text very worn and much repaired with large sections of text replaced with newer leaves; many places patched with newer pieces of parchment
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.
Spain
Late 16th century
Contemporary brown leather cover boards, edges covered with nailed-on, now-rusted iron; brass boss centered on back and front cover; two rusted iron clasps on front and back, with fasteners missing
Latin
Written in Spain in the last part of the sixteenth century; unidentified catalogue entry (no. 63) glued to inside front cover; early provenance unknown; given to Bryn Mawr College in 1972 in the bequest of Ethelinda Schaefer Castle
Spain
Late 16th century
Latin
Written in Spain in the last part of the sixteenth century; unidentified catalogue entry
This is a late sixteenth-century Spanish liturgical psalter. It contains the Psalms of the Sunday Office of Matins through None with antiphons and responses throughout the year. There is musical notation for the Te Deum and for the Hymns, antiphons, and responses at Prime and Terce.
Foliation in brown ink skipped for fol. 115; fols. 115-118 corrected underneath in pencil
Text very worn and much repaired with large sections of text replaced with newer leaves; many places patched with newer pieces of parchment
Gothic -- textualis
One five-line initial beginning the text and smaller simple initials in red marking sections throughout; staves in red with square, black neumes; rubrication throughout; guide letters for rubricator visible inside or beside most initials
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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