[Notated breviary]

Name:

Catholic Church

Date:

1450

Description:

Breviary for use in the diocese of Cologne, probably in the Kölner Dom (cathedral). Made in the 15th century, it was used, annotated, and repaired through to the end of the 18th century. The breviary is preceded by a calendar in which the feasts of Saint Gereon and the Eleven Thousand Virgins, martyrs of Cologne, and of Saint Severin, an early bishop of Cologne, are written in red. The Sanctoral in the breviary itself includes offices for a number of saints associated with Cologne and for the Translation of the Three Kings, associated with relics kept on the high altar of the cathedral. The breviary includes foliation, headings, and annotations in 16th- through 18th-century hands, some of which were trimmed for the manuscript's current binding. It also includes burns (f. 23-24), marks from candle wax in night offices, and numerous parchment repairs to page edges. Chant tunes are written in Hufnagelschrift neumes on 4-line staves that are anachronistically ruled in color (brown, red, black, and yellow). Accompanying the manuscript is a device for marking several pages simultaneously, consisting of a small dowel with 6 cords knotted around it. The cords may have had decorative knotted ends originally, but all but one are now frayed.

Language:

Latin

Provenance:

Sold at auction at Christie's, 4 June 2008, lot 44.

Relation:

The Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative Fund Home Page: http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/366278; Collation model: https://repository.upenn.edu/sims_models/150

Subject:

Kölner Dom; Catholic Church -- Liturgy -- Texts; Catholic Church; Liturgics; Gregorian chants -- Manuscripts; Gregorian chants; Breviaries; Breviaries -- Specimens

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

codices (bound manuscripts); annotations; breviaries; choirbooks; devotional calendars; Gregorian chants; Manuscripts, Latin; Manuscripts, Renaissance; manuscripts (documents)

Physical Description:

303 leaves : parchment (9 paper); 468 x 322 (416 x 260) mm bound to 508 x 378 mm

Geographic Subject:

Cologne (Germany) -- Church history

Rights:

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

Notes:

Ms. codex.; Title supplied by cataloger.; Table of contents: 1. f.1r-5v: [Calendar, lacking leaf for July-August].; Table of contents: 2. f.6r-11v: [Invitatories for matins, prayers with benedictions, suffrages for principal feasts].; Table of contents: 3. f.12r-18v: [Antiphons for first three Sundays in Advent].; Table of contents: 4. f.19r-280r: [Notated breviary].; Table of contents: 5. f.280r-286r: [Hymns].; Table of contents: 6. f.287r-290r: Festum purificationis Marie virginis.; Table of contents: 7. f.290r-294r: In festo visitacionis gloriose virginis Marie.; Table of contents: 8. f.294v: [Partial list of contents, 1751].; Table of contents: 9. f.295r: Festo sanctissimi nominis Mariae, 1745.; Table of contents: 10. f.296r-300r: Festum sanctissimi nominis Iesu.; Table of contents: 11. f.301r-303r: In festo exaltationis sanctae crucis.; Table of contents: 12. f.303v: Festo compassionis beatae Mariae virginis.; Collation: Parchment, iii (paper) + 294 + 9 (paper) + i (paper); 1⁴(-4) 2⁸ 3⁶ 4¹ 5-13¹² 14¹²(-6,-7) 15¹⁴(-4,-7,-8,-10,-11) 16¹²(-1,-2,-3) 17¹² 18¹⁰ 19-22¹² 23¹²(-11) 24-27¹² 28³ 29⁸ 30¹⁰ (+1, -10 pastedown); 16th- or 17th-century foliation in ink, [iii (paper), v], 1-13, 15-21, [22], 23-127, 130-139, 141, 143-145, 149-202, 205, 204-246, 246-287, [288], 289-296, [x], upper center recto; modern foliation in pencil, [iii, 302, i], upper right recto. References in this record are to modern foliation. Link to collation model at end of record.; Layout: Written in 2 columns of 53 lines or 21 staves ruled in lead, with the lines of the staves ruled in brown, red, black, and yellow ink.; Script: Written in a Gothic bookhand; chant tunes written in Hufnagelschrift neumes.; Decoration: Large puzzle initials in red and blue with red and lilac flourishing at the beginning of offices or texts (f. 6r, 12r, 22v, 37v, 88v, 106v, 110v, 157r, 270r, 280r). In text, 2-line red and blue initials alternate throughout; in chant, initials the height of one staff plus text are red, blue, or calligraphic with red.; Binding: German 17th-century paneled pigskin tooled in blind, with brass cornerpieces, bosses, and two catches and clasps, one clasp detached (Christie's).; Origin: Written in Germany, probably Cologne, in the mid-15th century (Christie's); later additions up to 1794 (f. 299r).; Purchased with support from the B. H. Breslauer Foundation.; Lawrence J. Schoenberg & Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative.; Latin.

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Oversize Ms. Codex 1233