Miscellaneous manuscripts (Large), ca. 1150-1175

Name:

Catholic Church; Miscellaneous Manuscripts Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Date:

1150

Description:

Leaf from a Cistercian missal containing texts from the Mass for Septuagesima Sunday, including readings from 1 Corinthians (9:24-10:4) and Matthew (20:1-10, incomplete). Written in Austria or southern Germany, in 24 long lines of a protogothic script. Decorated with 3 4-line initials, one each in red, green, and blue with a green checkerboard; 1 2-line initial in red; 1-line initials alternating red and green throughout; initials slashed with red; rubrics in red. Bound in full calf over boards with marbled endsheets by Edward Bayntun of Bayntun's of Bath.

Language:

Latin

Provenance:

Parent manuscript sold as part of the residue of the estate of Arnold Mettler of St. Gall at auction at Parke-Bernet Galleries, 30 Nov. 1948, lot 317, to Otto F. Ege.; Leaf described in this record sold by the family of Cleveland manuscripts dealer Otto F. Ege at auction at Sotheby's, 26 Nov. 1985, lot 44.; Sold by King Alfred's Notebook (Cayce, S.C.), cat. 2 (2010), no. 7.; Mettler, Arnold, former owner.; Ege, Otto F., former owner.

Relation:

The Henry Charles Lea Fund Home Page: http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/366238

Subject:

Cistercians -- Liturgy -- Texts; Cistercians; Missals -- Specimens; Missals; Liturgics

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

Fragments (object portions); Missals; Manuscripts, Latin; Manuscripts, Medieval; Specimens; Texts; manuscripts (documents)

Physical Description:

1 item (1 leaf) : parchment; 349 x 236 (250 x 163) mm

Rights:

https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/

Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Henry Charles Lea Fund.; In Latin.

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Misc Mss (Large) Box 1 Folder 15

Collection:

Miscellaneous Manuscripts (Large)