Ms. devotional texts and antiphons, use of Rome (Office of the Dead); written in Germany, dated 1543 on fol. 49v, part 2 (136v cumulative folio count).
Texts: Part 1: fols. 1-3v - Sancti Spiritus and Veni creator spiritus; fols. 3v-23v - 7 Penitential Psalms; fols. 23v-28v - Litany; fols. 28v-87 - Office of the Dead for Matins; Part 2: fols. 1-52 - Antiphons and Office of the Dead for Matins. Lleaves are foliated 1-87 on the vellum section, Part 1, and 1-52 on the paper section, Part 2.
Binding: 16th-century blind-stamped calf over boards, one brass clap; end pastedown is a vellum cutting from an earlier text, written in 2 columns.
Musical notation: 4-line red staves with hofnagel notation.
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[Devotional texts and antiphons].
Accession number:
MS W.32
Title:
[Devotional texts and antiphons].
Created:
[1543]
Credit:
Bequest; Julia Parker Wightman; 1994.
Description:
139 leaves (1 column, 11 lines - fols. 1-87; 8-10 lines - Part 2, fols. 1-52), bound : vellum (fols. 1-87) and paper (fols. 1-52), ill. ; 76 x 67 mm.
Provenance:
Christophoro Grasperger; given by Grasperger to Caspar Curtius Toeplensis in 1585 (inscription on fol. 1); Erasmus Antiquariat, Amsterdam; purchased by Julia Parker Wightman in 1967; JPW 6161; Julia Parker Wightman Bequest in 1994.
Notes:
Script:
textura and cursive.
Language:
In Latin;
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