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Dominican prayer book Ms. Codex 1561
Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts
Manuscript Overview
References
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Abstract

Prayer book made for use in a community of Dominican nuns in southern Germany. The 15th-century portion (f. 1r-135v) includes prayers concerning the Cross and the Virgin (with brief mention of Saint Dominic and the Dominican saints, Peter Martyr, Thomas Aquinas, and Vincent Ferrer); prayers for particular occasions; portions of the Office, including prayers from Matins and Compline; portions of the daily chapter as observed by Dominicans; the Hours of the Virgin in the Dominican Use, including rubrics referring to nuns and their prioress (f. 52r-53r) in Compline; the Office of the Dead in the Dominican Use, with chant notation; the Penitential Psalms and Litany, and additional psalms. The 17th-century (possibly early 18th-century) portion (f. 136v-216r) includes the liturgy for death and burial, with chant notation; the commendation of souls, including a litany with later Dominican saints (Hyacinth, Rose of Lima, and possibly Raymond of Peñafort, Louis Beltran, and Pius V) and the full text of Psalm 118; the Penitential Psalms again with prayers, additional prayers in German, and prayers for the dead. Notes in the margins of the 15th-century pages show that the parchment pages have been trimmed, perhaps for binding with the 17th-century additions (for example, f. 49v-50r). One set of metallic index tabs flush to the page edges appears in the parchment leaves only; another set of parchment index tabs that extend beyond the page edges were added throughout after the addition of the paper leaves.

Physical Description

Support: parchment and paper; Extent: 236 leaves : parchment 108 x 83 (83 x 62) mm. and paper 109 x 85 mm. bound together to 116 x 96 mm; Foliation: Parchment and paper, i + 235; [1-139 (parchment, with paper glued to both sides of f.137, 139), 140-216 (paper), 217-235 (blank paper)]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.

Layout

Written in 16 long lines and frame-ruled in faint ink (f. 1r-135v); square musical notation on 4-line staves (f. 62r-106r, 132r-134v, red staves; 137r-150r, 182r-182v, black staves).

Script

Written in a 15th-century hybrid script (f. 1r-135v) and 17th-century cursive script (f. 136r-216r).

Decoration

5-line initials in blue with red penwork (f. 1r, 128r); 1- and 2-line initials, alternately red and blue, throughout; rubrics and staves 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.

Notes

Ms. codex.

Title supplied by cataloger.

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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Keywords
15th century
17th century
German
Germany
Breviary
Liturgy
Devotion
Paper
University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts

Place of Origin

Bamberg?, Germany

Date

Written in southern Germany, probably in the diocese of Bamberg, within a few decades of the canonization of Vincent Ferrer (1455), with substantial additions made in Germany in the late 17th or early 18th century.

Binding

Late 17th- or early 18th-century leather over wooden boards, covers cracked along hinges and upper cover detached; two leather clasps with brass fasteners attaching to pins on the upper board, lower clasp detached.

Language

Latin with rubrics in German and later additions in Latin and German

Provenance

Sold by Les Enluminures (Paris & Chicago), 2010.

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Place of Origin

Bamberg?, Germany

Date

Written in southern Germany, probably in the diocese of Bamberg, within a few decades of the canonization of Vincent Ferrer (1455), with substantial additions made in Germany in the late 17th or early 18th century.

Language

Latin with rubrics in German and later additions in Latin and German

Provenance

Sold by Les Enluminures

Manuscript Overview

Abstract

Prayer book made for use in a community of Dominican nuns in southern Germany. The 15th-century portion (f. 1r-135v) includes prayers concerning the Cross and the Virgin (with brief mention of Saint Dominic and the Dominican saints, Peter Martyr, Thomas Aquinas, and Vincent Ferrer); prayers for particular occasions; portions of the Office, including prayers from Matins and Compline; portions of the daily chapter as observed by Dominicans; the Hours of the Virgin in the Dominican Use, including rubrics referring to nuns and their prioress (f. 52r-53r) in Compline; the Office of the Dead in the Dominican Use, with chant notation; the Penitential Psalms and Litany, and additional psalms. The 17th-century (possibly early 18th-century) portion (f. 136v-216r) includes the liturgy for death and burial, with chant notation; the commendation of souls, including a litany with later Dominican saints (Hyacinth, Rose of Lima, and possibly Raymond of Peñafort, Louis Beltran, and Pius V) and the full text of Psalm 118; the Penitential Psalms again with prayers, additional prayers in German, and prayers for the dead. Notes in the margins of the 15th-century pages show that the parchment pages have been trimmed, perhaps for binding with the 17th-century additions (for example, f. 49v-50r). One set of metallic index tabs flush to the page edges appears in the parchment leaves only; another set of parchment index tabs that extend beyond the page edges were added throughout after the addition of the paper leaves.

Notes

Ms. codex.

Title supplied by cataloger.

Script note

Written in a 15th-century hybrid script (f. 1r-135v) and 17th-century cursive script (f. 136r-216r).

Decoration Note

5-line initials in blue with red penwork (f. 1r, 128r); 1- and 2-line initials, alternately red and blue, throughout; rubrics and staves 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.

References
Binding Images

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.

Spine

Keywords
15th century
17th century
German
Germany
Breviary
Liturgy
Devotion
Paper
University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts
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