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Benedictiones pro shedulis Im[m]aculatae Conceptionis Beatissimae V[irginis] Mariae, antiphona etc.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Manuscripts Ms. Codex 1192
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- Format:
- Book
- Manuscript
- Language:
- Latin
- Subjects (All):
- Catholic Church--Prayers and devotions--Early works to 1800.
- Catholic Church.
- Exorcism--Early works to 1800.
- Exorcism.
- Genre:
- codices (bound manuscripts)
- prayers (compositions)
- Manuscripts, Latin.
- Manuscripts, European.
- Prayers and devotions.
- Prayers.
- Devotional literature.
- Penn Provenance:
- Formerly owned by Henry Charles Lea (bookplate, inside upper cover).
- Physical Description:
- 28 leaves : paper ; 158 x 95 mm bound to 165 x 100 mm
- Production:
- [Germany?], [1700?]
- Language Note:
- Latin
- Summary:
- Collection of Latin benedictions, prayers and hymns to the Virgin Mary and for exorcisms. Examples of these include "Exorcismus super chartam, calamum, atramentum, sigillum, contra omnia maleficia probatissimus & expertissumus" (f. 3r), "Benedictio ultima super chartam et atramentum simul" (f. 17v), and "Post hunc exorcismum recitabis super chartam, calamum & atramentum sequentes psalmos" (f. 12r).
- Notes:
- Ms. codex.
- Title from title page (f. 1r).
- Pagination: Paper, 28 leaves; 1-14, [15-28, 24-28 blank]; contemporary foliation in ink, modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
- Layout: Block text with centered section headings.
- Script: Written in two cursive hands (f. 1r-15v, 15v-24v).
- Decoration: Small Teutonic crosses throughout text and margins. Large flourish on f. 3r, possibly signature.
- Binding: Modern brown quarter morocco (Zacour-Hirsch).
- Origin: Possibly written in Germany, ca. 1700 (Zacour-Hirsch).
- Cited in:
- Described in Zacour, Norman P. and Hirsch, Rudolf. Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Libraries of the University of Pennsylvania to 1800 (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1965), p. 178 (Ms. Lea 146).
- Cited as:
- UPenn Ms. Codex 1192
- OCLC:
- 230949278
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