[Missal] : [use of Rome].

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Catholic Church.

Contributor:

Constance L. Rosenthal Book Fund.

Language:

Latin

Subjects (All):

Jesus Christ--Crucifixion--Art.

Jesus Christ.

Catholic Church--Liturgy.

Catholic Church.

Genre:

Codices (bound manuscripts)

missals.

Manuscripts, Medieval.

Penn Provenance:

Offered at auction at Peter Kiefer (Pforzheim, Germany), Auktion 110 (11 October 2019), lot 351.

Sold by Les Enluminures (Paris and Chicago), no. TM 1074, 2020.

Physical Description:

193 leaves : parchment ; 235 x 165 (160 x 110) mm bound to 250 x 180 mm.

Other Title:

Missale multae antiquitatis

Place of Publication:

[Italy], [between 1375 and 1425?]

Language Note:

Latin.

Summary:

Texts for the Mass following the Use of Rome, except for the burial rite in an unidentified use (f. 189v-191v). The proper prefaces for particular feasts and the preface of the Ordinary of the Mass appear with musical notation (f. 59r-67r). Ribbon tabs on four leaves mark the added Crucifixion miniature facing the start of the Canon of the Mass (f. 68), the resumption of the Temporale after the Canon of the Mass with Easter (f. 73), the Proper of the Saints (f. 139), and the Common of Saints (f. 162).

Contents:

1. f.1r-59r: [Temporale, first Sunday of Advent to Palm Sunday]

2. f.59r-67r: [Proper prefaces (notated) and communicantes for various feasts and the Ordinary of the Mass]

3. f.69r-73r: [Canon of the Mass]

4. 73r-138v: [Temporale, Easter to the Sundays after Pentecost]

5. f.139r-161v: [Proper of the Saints for selected major feasts of the Sanctorale, excluding April, May, and October]

6. f.162r-177v: [Common of Saints]

7. f.177v-189v: [Votive Masses]

8. f.189v-191v: [Burial rite (not Use of Rome)]

9. f.192r-193r: [Rite of blessing and sprinkling with Holy Water].

Notes:

Ms. codex.

Title supplied by cataloger; alternate title Missale multae antiquitatis added later in decorative letters in ink inside upper cover.

Collation: Parchment, i (paper) + 193 + i (paper); 1-3⁸ 4⁴ 5-17⁸ 18⁶ 19-24⁸ 25⁸⁻¹(-8, last leaf cancelled); modern foliation in pencil, [1-193], upper right recto. Horizontal catchwords with four radiating lines, lower center last verso except gatherings 9 and 18 (no catchword on f. 68v or f.138v).

Layout: Written in two columns of 20 lines; ruled very faintly in lead; musical notation written in two columns of five 3-line staves with a fourth line on top of the top staff in each column.

Script: Written in Gothic textualis script.

Decoration: One full-page miniature added to a blank leaf after binding, Crucifixion with the Virgin Mary below on the left and John the Evangelist on the right, in red and brown ink and yellow and brown wash (f. 68v); four 5-line initials in blue ink flourished in red (f. 1r, 69r, 73r, 162r; two 2-line initials flourished in brown (f. 50v); 2-line initials in red, incipit highlighting, and rubrics throughout; musical staves in red (f. 59r-67r).

Binding: Original or early (late 14th- or 15th-century) leather over wooden boards, bllind-tooled with intersecting diagonal lines in a three-line frame; all bosses missing except center back; three tawed leather split thong supports formerly attached to outer boards, now only attached at bottom front; remnants of two fabric straps attached later to upper cover by brass nails with stars on their heads; head and tail of spine wrapped with metallic ribbon, possibly early modern, tacked with brass nails with stars on their heads; lower cover detached but held on by the metallic ribbon.

Origin: Written in northern Italy, between 1375 and 1425; Crucifixion miniature possibly added in southern Germany in the second half of the 15th century.

Local Notes:

Purchased with support from the B. H. Breslauer Foundation.

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Constance L. Rosenthal Book Fund.

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 2053.

OCLC:

1242576968

Access Restriction:

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