[Dominican prayer book]

Name:

Catholic Church

Date:

1455

Description:

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.

Language:

Latin

Provenance:

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

Relation:

The Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative Fund Home Page: http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/366278

Subject:

Catholic Church -- Liturgy -- Texts; Catholic Church; Dominicans; Liturgics; Breviaries; Monastic and religious life of women; Dominicans -- Liturgy; Dominican sisters; Monastic and religious life of women -- Liturgy; Breviaries -- Specimens; Gregorian chants -- Manuscripts; Gregorian chants

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

Texts; Codices; Breviaries; Gregorian chants; Litanies (prayers); Prayer books; Finding tabs; Manuscripts, Latin; Manuscripts, German; Manuscripts, Renaissance; Manuscripts, European; Specimens; manuscripts (documents)

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

Rights:

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

Notes:

Ms. codex.; Title supplied by cataloger.; Table of contents: 1. f.1r-13v: [Prayers from the Office, daily chapter, and mealtimes]; Table of contents: 2. f.13v-49v: [Little Office of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Dominican Use, through Vespers, with Vespers antiphons for some feasts]; Table of contents: 3. f.49v-51v: [Prayers, including prayers accompanying the Gradual Psalms]; Table of contents: 4. f.51v-62r: Die Complet [Compline, with antiphons for some feasts]; Table of contents: 5. f.62r-108r: [Officium pro defunctis, with chant notation]; Table of contents: 6. f.108r-128r: [Septem Psalmi poenitentiales cum Litaniis, followed by an alternate litany for the dead]; Table of contents: 7. f.128r-135v: [Psalms 22-25, 27-30, followed by prayers, including two added in another hand]; Table of contents: 8. f.136r-151r: [Liturgy for Death and Burial, with chant notation]; Table of contents: 9. f.151r-172r: [Ordo commendationis animae, including litany]; Table of contents: 10. f.172r-188r: [Penitential psalms with prayers for the dead]; Table of contents: 11. f.188r-201v: [German prayers, in 34 numbered sections]; Table of contents: 12. f.210v-211v: [Prayers on the Sacrament]; Table of contents: 13. f.211v-216r: [Prayers for the dead in Latin and German]; 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.; 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).; Script: Written in a 15th-century hybrid script (f. 1r-135v) and 17th-century cursive script (f. 136r-216r).; 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.; 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.; 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.; Lawrence J. Schoenberg & Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative.; Latin with rubrics in German and later additions in Latin and German.

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Ms. Codex 1561