Details

Subject(s)

• Catholic Church—Liturgy—Texts—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Catholic Church—Prayers and devotions—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Latin—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Related name

• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Princeton MS. 248 [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Psalters [Browse]
• Hymnals [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Blind tooled bindings [Browse]
• Headbands [Browse]
• Clasps [Browse]
• Wooden boards [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• decorated initials [Browse]

Medium/​Support

parchment rdamat

Summary note

For choir use by an unidentified church dedicated to St. Dionysius in the Diocese of Münster. With Hufnagel notation on four-line staves.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title devised by cataloger.
• Calendar for March-December (fol. 1a-5b). Musical notation in different hand (fol. 146a-146b). Inscriptions in red on pastedowns.
• Collation: Parchment ; fol. 146 ; modern foliation in pencil.
• Layout: 25 lines per page ; interspersed lines of musical notation.
• Description: MS in fair condition, pages are darkened with some text worn and illegible.
• Decoration: 6-8 line initials of red and blue on foliate background of red and green. Occasional smaller initials with similar decoration and regular1-2 line initials alternating red and blue.
• Origin: Northern Rhine, Westphalia after 1389.

Binding note

Stamped leather over wooden boards (12 mm thick). Blind-tooled floral outer frame, foliate inner frame, and 3 oval IHS stamps. Endbands. 2 metal catchplates on upper board; two leather loops on lower board attached with 3 metal rivets each.

Place name(s)

Germany Westphalia

OCLC

1548129062

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