[Dominican prayer book].

Abstract:

Prayer book made for use in a community of Dominican nuns in southern Germany. The 15th-century portion (f. 1r-135v) includes prayers concerning the Cross and the Virgin (with brief mention of Saint Dominic and the Dominican saints, Peter Martyr, Thomas Aquinas, and Vincent Ferrer); prayers for particular occasions; portions of the Office, including prayers from Matins and Compline; portions of the daily chapter as observed by Dominicans; the Hours of the Virgin in the Dominican Use, including rubrics referring to nuns and their prioress (f. 52r-53r) in Compline; the Office of the Dead in the Dominican Use, with chant notation; the Penitential Psalms and Litany, and additional psalms. The 17th-century (possibly early 18th-century) portion (f. 136v-216r) includes the liturgy for death and burial, with chant notation; the commendation of souls, including a litany with later Dominican saints (Hyacinth, Rose of Lima, and possibly Raymond of Peñafort, Louis Beltran, and Pius V) and the full text of Psalm 118; the Penitential Psalms again with prayers, additional prayers in German, and prayers for the dead. Notes in the margins of the 15th-century pages show that the parchment pages have been trimmed, perhaps for binding with the 17th-century additions (for example, f. 49v-50r). One set of metallic index tabs flush to the page edges appears in the parchment leaves only; another set of parchment index tabs that extend beyond the page edges were added throughout after the addition of the paper leaves.

Date:

1455

Description:

Lawrence J. Schoenberg & Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative.

Identifier:

9946518133503681; (OCoLC)ocn501946604; (OCoLC)501946604; (PU)4651813-penndb-Voyager

Language:

Latin; German

Provenance:

Sold by Les Enluminures (Paris & Chicago), 2010.

Publisher:

[Bamberg?, Germany], [between 1455 and 1475, 16--?]

Relation:

http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/366278

Subject:

Gregorian chants.; Monastic and religious life of women.; Breviaries.; Liturgics.; Dominican sisters.; Monastic and religious life of women -- Liturgy.; Breviaries -- Specimens.; Gregorian chants -- Manuscripts.; Texts.; Codices.; Specimens.; Litanies (prayers); Prayer books.; Finding tabs.; Manuscripts, Latin.; Manuscripts, German.; Manuscripts, Renaissance.; Manuscripts, European.

Form/Genre:

Manuscripts

Physical Description:

236 leaves : parchment and paper; parchment 108 x 83 (83 x 62) mm and paper 109 x 85 mm bound together to 116 x 96 mm

Corporate Name:

Catholic Church.

Rights:

https://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-US/1.0/?

Notes:

Title supplied by cataloger.; Origin: Written in southern Germany, probably in the diocese of Bamberg, within a few decades of the canonization of Vincent Ferrer (1455), with substantial additions made in Germany in the late 17th or early 18th century.; Ms. codex.; Script: Written in a 15th-century hybrid script (f. 1r-135v) and 17th-century cursive script (f. 136r-216r).; Layout: Written in 16 long lines and frame-ruled in faint ink (f. 1r-135v); square musical notation on 4-line staves (f. 62r-106r, 132r-134v, red staves; 137r-150r, 182r-182v, black staves).; Binding: Late 17th- or early 18th-century leather over wooden boards, covers cracked along hinges and upper cover detached; two leather clasps with brass fasteners attaching to pins on the upper board, lower clasp detached.; Foliation: Parchment and paper, i + 235; [1-139 (parchment, with paper glued to both sides of f.137, 139), 140-216 (paper), 217-235 (blank paper)]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.; Decoration: 5-line initials in blue with red penwork (f. 1r, 128r); 1- and 2-line initials, alternately red and blue, throughout; rubrics and staves in red.; Latin with rubrics in German and later additions in Latin and German.

Physical Location:

Ms. Codex 1561