Details

Subject(s)

• Antiphonaries—15th century [Browse]
• Hymns, Latin—15th century [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)—Italy [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]
• Illumination of books and manuscripts [Browse]

Former owner

• Kane, Grenville, 1854-1943 [Browse]

Related name

• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Kane MS. 9. [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Hymnals [Browse]

Notes

• Vespers antiphon and directions for the celebration of the feast of Nicholas of Myra. Both text and music have been partially erased and rewritten. First antiphon for Vespers (Ps. 109) now begins, “Ecce sacerdos magnus ...” The second antiphon (on the verso) has been erased, leaving only a blue initial N with red pen flourishes.
• Script: Italian Gothic Rotunda.
• Decoration: Italian Gothic painting. The first Vespers antiphon opens with a 2-line blue initial E in which Nicholas of Myra stands in bishop's vestments holding a red book; acanthus fronds of blue and orange highlighted with gold balls, lozenge, and buds outlined in black extending into the upper, left, and lower margins, the lower tendril terminating in a beast head.

Binding note

One parchment leaf, now enclosed in a frame.

Provenance

Early provenance of Kane MS. 9 is unknown. Along the bottom edge of the verso are the numbers 91430 and 2.74.202.3 in pencil. The leaf was acquired by Grenville Kane (1854-1943), of Tuxedo Park, New York. The Kane Collection was acquired by the Princeton University Library from Kane's heirs in February 1946.

References

Medieval & Renaissance manuscripts in the Princeton University Library, volume 2, page 17.

Cite as

Kane MS. 9, Manuscripts Division, Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, Princeton University Library.

OCLC

1101131629

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