Passio s[an]c[t]i Blasii ... [etc.]

Name:

Catholic Church

Timespan:

Early works to 1800

Date:

1200

Description:

An account of the martyrdom of Saint Blaise, bishop of Sebaste in Armenia, followed by readings and chants for a Mass of Saint Blaise. Additional texts, probably in different hands, at the end of the manuscript are mostly for baptisms, but also include one group of prayers for vestments and two rough sketches of Guidonian hands. A 17th-century (?) inscription on the last leaf, which probably served as the cover for this gathering folded in half, reads Historia et orationes pro Sancto Blasio (f. 8v).

Language:

Latin

Provenance:

Appears in Maggs Bros. cat. 542 (1930), no. 53.; Sold by Dawson's Book Shop (Los Angeles, Calif.) to Albert Elkus of the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, Sept. 1933.; Sold at auction at Sotheby's, 19 June 2001, lot 32, to Lawrence J. Schoenberg.; Gift of Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2010.; Schoenberg, Lawrence J., former owner.

Relation:

Video orientation: http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/1333025; The Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative Fund Home Page: http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/366278; Digital facsimile for download (OPenn): https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0001/html/ljs418.html

Subject:

Blaise, Saint, -approximately 316; Catholic Church -- Liturgy -- Texts; Catholic Church; Liturgics; Christian saints -- Biography -- Early works to 1800; Christian saints -- Biography; Gregorian chants -- Manuscripts; Gregorian chants

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

Texts; Codices; Diagrams; Drawings (visual works); Gregorian chants; Hagiographies (works); Manuscripts, Latin; Manuscripts, Medieval; Biographies; manuscripts (documents)

Physical Description:

8 leaves : parchment, color illustrations, music; 334 x 210 (211-238 x 138) mm bound to 344 x 218 mm

Rights:

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

Notes:

Ms. codex.; Title for manuscript from caption title for predominant work (f. 1r).; Table of contents: 1. f.1r-4v: Passio sancti Blasii.; Table of contents: 2. f.4v-5v: [Mass of St. Blaise]; Table of contents: 3. f.6r-8r: [Liturgical texts for baptisms and prayers for vestments]; Table of contents: 4. f.8v: [Guidonian hand diagrams]; Collation: Parchment, ii (modern parchment) + 8 + ii (modern parchment); 1⁸.; Layout: Written in 2 columns (f. 1-7) of 32 lines (f. 1-5); frame-ruled in lead (f. 1-5), faint ink (f. 6), and drypoint (f. 7); prickings visible.; Script: Written in rounded Gothic script, largely by one hand (f. 1-5), with additions at the end possibly by other hands.; Decoration: Drawing in brown and red ink of Blaise as a bishop (f. 1r); 2 Guidonian hand diagrams sketched in ink (f. 8v); 4-line zoomorphic initial on a red ground (f. 1r); ornamental initials, 2 to 4 lines in height, in green-brown ink (f. 6v-7v); 2-line initials and single lines in chant in red (f. 4v-6r); rubrics in red and capitals touched in red (f. 1r-6r).; Music: Contains chants notated with neumes in brown ink positioned relative to a single red line (f. 4v-6r) and neumes without lines (f. 7v-8r).; Binding: Late 19th- or early 20th-century morocco by Riviere & Son (London).; Origin: Written in Italy in the 13th century.; Lawrence J. Schoenberg & Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative.; Latin.

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Oversize LJS 418

Collection:

Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection (University of Pennsylvania)