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Hymns and prayers Ms. Codex 1604
Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts
Manuscript Overview
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Abstract

Manuscript collection of texts of hymns and prayers bound with slightly later printed pastoral works appropriate for a priest. The first 6 gatherings of the manuscript section (f. 1-72) contain 86 hymns and prayers in Latin with interlinear German, each followed by a German translation, including Conditor alme siderum (f. 1r), Veni redemptor genitum (f. 1v), Criste redemptor omnium (f. 7r), Ave maris stella (f. 14v), Veni creator spiritus (f. 38r). Some of the Latin texts in this section have numerical notations above words. The sequence Ave praeclara maris stella, with Latin and German text intermingled, has been added by another hand on the last leaves of this section (f. 70v-72r). The last gathering of the manuscript section (f. 73-86), in a different hand and slightly different format, contains 30 hymns in Latin all with numerical notation above words in the text and with marginal commentary. Notes by later hands are dated 1556 (f. 86r) and 1553 (last flyleaf). Printed works precede and follow the manuscript section. An edition of the Liber florum beati Bernardi abbatis Clarevallensis printed in Augsburg in 1519 comprises the first half of the volume. Editions published in 1515 in Leipzig by Melchior Lotter of the Stella clericorum, an anonymous 13th-century pastoral handbook, and the Secreta sacerdotum by Heinrich von Langenstein, follow the manuscript section.

Physical Description

Support: paper; Extent: 86 leaves : 210 x 152 (150 x 89) mm. bound to 219 x 172 mm; Collation: Paper, 86; 1¹²(-1+1) 2-6¹² 7¹⁴; [1-86], modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto.

Layout

Written in 29 long lines; Latin texts are written on alternate lines with interlinear glosses.

Script

Latin written in a Gothic hybrid script and German written in a cursive script, by at least 2 hands (f. 1-72, 73-86).

Decoration

2- to 4-line initials and rubrics in red throughout; initials in text touched with 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 (Zacour-Hirsch).

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
Hybrid book
15th century
Annotated
Hymnal
Paper
Germany
German
Christian
Liturgy
University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts

Place of Origin

Germany

Date

Manuscript section written in Germany in the late 15th century (Zacour-Hirsch).

Binding

16th-century pigskin (Zacour-Hirsch) over spine and inner half of wooden boards with a pair of metal catches and bases for straps.

Language

Latin with German interlinear glosses and translations

Provenance

Gift of R. D. Jo[hannes?] Heussius to the Jesuit house at Oettingen (Altötting), 1603 (inscriptions on title page of first printed work).

Purchased, 1959; transferred from Culture Class collection, 2011.

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Place of Origin

Germany

Date

Manuscript section written in Germany in the late 15th century (Zacour-Hirsch).

Language

Latin with German interlinear glosses and translations

Provenance

Gift of R. D. Jo[hannes?] Heussius to the Jesuit house at Oettingen

Purchased, 1959; transferred from Culture Class collection, 2011.

Manuscript Overview

Abstract

Manuscript collection of texts of hymns and prayers bound with slightly later printed pastoral works appropriate for a priest. The first 6 gatherings of the manuscript section (f. 1-72) contain 86 hymns and prayers in Latin with interlinear German, each followed by a German translation, including Conditor alme siderum (f. 1r), Veni redemptor genitum (f. 1v), Criste redemptor omnium (f. 7r), Ave maris stella (f. 14v), Veni creator spiritus (f. 38r). Some of the Latin texts in this section have numerical notations above words. The sequence Ave praeclara maris stella, with Latin and German text intermingled, has been added by another hand on the last leaves of this section (f. 70v-72r). The last gathering of the manuscript section (f. 73-86), in a different hand and slightly different format, contains 30 hymns in Latin all with numerical notation above words in the text and with marginal commentary. Notes by later hands are dated 1556 (f. 86r) and 1553 (last flyleaf). Printed works precede and follow the manuscript section. An edition of the Liber florum beati Bernardi abbatis Clarevallensis printed in Augsburg in 1519 comprises the first half of the volume. Editions published in 1515 in Leipzig by Melchior Lotter of the Stella clericorum, an anonymous 13th-century pastoral handbook, and the Secreta sacerdotum by Heinrich von Langenstein, follow the manuscript section.

Notes

Ms. codex.

Title supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch).

Script note

Latin written in a Gothic hybrid script and German written in a cursive script, by at least 2 hands (f. 1-72, 73-86).

Decoration Note

2- to 4-line initials and rubrics in red throughout; initials in text touched with 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
Hybrid book
15th century
Annotated
Hymnal
Paper
Germany
German
Christian
Liturgy
University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts
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