Rechnung vom Schiffmeister Ampt

Name:

Schindler, Sebastian, 16th century

Timespan:

16th century

Date:

1585

Description:

Accounts of Sebastian Schindler, shipmaster, listing expenses incurred for 1585-1586 (f. 4r-10r). Bound in a 12th-century noted breviary fragment with staffless, unheightened or nondiastematic neumes (Old German notation) with the opening texts from Vespers for Holy Saturday, including the antiphon Vespere autem Sabbati que lucescit, Psalm incipits, and lessons from Mark 16:1-3 and Gregory the Great's Homily XXI for Easter Day.

Language:

German

Provenance:

Sold at auction by Christie's (London), 28 November 2011, lot 5.; Sold at auction by Bloomsbury Auctions (London), 7 December 2016, lot 77.

Relation:

The Constance L. Rosenthal Book Fund Home Page: http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/366271; Collation model: https://repository.upenn.edu/sims_models/148

Subject:

Catholic Church -- Liturgy -- Texts; Catholic Church; Liturgics; Gregorian chants -- Manuscripts; Gregorian chants

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

Texts; Codices; Account books; Gregorian chants; Manuscripts, Latin; Manuscripts, German; Manuscripts, Medieval; Manuscripts, Renaissance; manuscripts (documents)

Physical Description:

16 leaves : paper; 303 x 103 mm bound to 307 x 110 mm

Geographic Subject:

Lucerne (Switzerland) -- History -- 16th century -- Sources

Rights:

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

Notes:

Ms. codex.; Shipmaster of Lucerne, Switzerland.; Title from caption title (f. 1r).; Collation: Paper, 16; 1(8-1) 2(6) 3(2) 4(2-2); first leaf of first quire and last leaf of last quire are pastedowns; modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto 1-16 (1-3, 11-16 blank). Link to collation model at end of record.; Script: Written in German cursive script by Sebastian Schindler; liturgical text on covers written in Caroline minuscule.; Decoration: Liturgical text on cover has simple decorated initials and rubrication in red, and initials touched with red.; Watermark: Heawood, I, Crozier, no. 1174 (Basel, 1545) (Christie's).; Binding: Parchment wallet binding formed from a leaf of a 12th-century noted breviary, probably from Switzerland.; Origin: Written in the Lucerne region of Switzerland (Christie's), from autumn 1585 to autumn 1586 (inscription, front cover; caption title, f. 4r).; Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Constance L. Rosenthal Book Fund.; German; liturgical text on covers in Latin.

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Oversize Ms. Codex 1871

Collection:

Constance L. Rosenthal Book Fund