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Seven penitential psalms, litanies, vigilia mortuorum, antiphons; chants for Palm Sunday through Easter (f. 132-181); prayers (in a later hand, in margin), e.g., S. Anna Catharina Hellermans, ora pro me; prayer in German (f. 181v-182r); chants for the Ascension and Purification.
Support: parchment; Extent: 205 leaves : 93 x 70 mm. bound to 100 x 77 mm; Foliation: Parchment, i (paper) + 205 + v (paper); [1-205]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
Written in 12-14 long lines, with musical notation written in 5 long lines; some pages ruled in ink; some prickings visible.
Written in a Gothic script by several hands, with marginal notations and later additions, including a few leaves of music in a later hand, and the beginning of the Gospel according to John in a later cursive hand on paper endleaves.
Historiated initial D with woman and angel with gold illuminated halos, identified by Debra Taylor Cashion as the Ecstasy of Mary Magdalene (f. 1r). Large decorated initial D in blue and red (f. 22r); face in brown initial (f. 184r), decorated initials in red and undecorated initials in blue throughout manuscript.
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.
Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger; other title, Rituale praedicatorum, from Zacour-Hirsch Catalogue.
Musical notation: 4-line staves in red ink; square notes; a few leaves of musical notation in brown ink (staves and notes) in a later hand.
Incipit: Domine ne in furore [Ps. 6].
Imperfect; leaves between f. 10-11, 50-51, 118-119 known to be wanting.
Volume appears to have been in use in a women's monastic community, names of nuns written on several leaves (f. 93v-94r, 125v-126r).
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.
Germany
Written in the Rhineland (Zacour-Hirsch), perhaps in Cologne (Cashion, Leaves of Gold), ca. 1450 (Zacour-Hirsch).
18th-century German calf, with 1 clasp intact, detached clasp stored with manuscript in mylar sleeve.
Latin, with a few leaves in German
Unidentified signature on paper endleaf at the beginning.
Sold by Anton Düssel, 1949.
Germany
Written in the Rhineland (Zacour-Hirsch), perhaps in Cologne (Cashion, Leaves of Gold), ca. 1450 (Zacour-Hirsch).
Latin, with a few leaves in German
Unidentified signature on paper endleaf at the beginning.
Sold by Anton Düssel, 1949.
Seven penitential psalms, litanies, vigilia mortuorum, antiphons; chants for Palm Sunday through Easter (f. 132-181); prayers (in a later hand, in margin), e.g., S. Anna Catharina Hellermans, ora pro me; prayer in German (f. 181v-182r); chants for the Ascension and Purification.
Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger; other title, Rituale praedicatorum, from Zacour-Hirsch Catalogue.
Musical notation: 4-line staves in red ink; square notes; a few leaves of musical notation in brown ink (staves and notes) in a later hand.
Incipit: Domine ne in furore [Ps. 6].
Imperfect; leaves between f. 10-11, 50-51, 118-119 known to be wanting.
Volume appears to have been in use in a women's monastic community, names of nuns written on several leaves (f. 93v-94r, 125v-126r).
Written in a Gothic script by several hands, with marginal notations and later additions, including a few leaves of music in a later hand, and the beginning of the Gospel according to John in a later cursive hand on paper endleaves.
Historiated initial D with woman and angel with gold illuminated halos, identified by Debra Taylor Cashion as the Ecstasy of Mary Magdalene (f. 1r). Large decorated initial D in blue and red (f. 22r); face in brown initial (f. 184r), decorated initials in red and undecorated initials in blue throughout manuscript.
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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