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- Bound in limp vellum wrapper formed from a 12th- or early 13th century noted breviary, possibly from Spain, with two wide laced leather strips around spine; folded vertically for travel., Spine of two wrapped gatherings from a fifteenth-century portable antiphonary from Spain, containing text and musical score for chants for the Catholic liturgy for Palm Sunday folded vertically. Shown are two wide laced leather strips around the spine., and Jointly purchased by Western Michigan University and the Newberry Library in 1998.
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- Marginalia in different hands in German, Contemporary brown leather boards; two concentric double blind-ruled borders, filled with blind-stamped shell and flower ornaments; diapered center panel, lozenges containing blind-stamped flower and eagle ornaments; brass and leather strap-and-pin fastener; front and back pastedowns are parchment leaves; engraving of a saint’s deathbed scene removed from another text and affixed to front pastedown. In a green cloth clamshell box, with green leather spine., Text in gothic liturgical book hand in black ink, lightly ruled in brown, with first and last one or two horizontal rules extending to edge of leaf; prickings visible along fore-edge of leaves; 18 lines per page; headings, superscript corrections, and ceremonial instructions in red; sentence initials touched in red; alternating red and blue capitals; footnotes in German in brown, with sentences touched in red; catchwords in brown, circled in red., Manual or office book compiled for a Dominican nunnery, probably in Nuremberg during the third quarter of the 15th century, possibly between 1450 and 1469. The compilation of liturgies and prayers includes the Communion for the sick; Extreme Unction to be offered in the death of a sister; the Mass for the dead; various litanies of saints, with multiple references to St. Dominic, and local German saints such as St. Cunegund (whose relics are in Bamberg); St. Heinrich (Henry II, husband of Cunegund, also of Bamberg); and St. Sebald (patron saint of Nuremberg). Also included are diagrams in lower margins, written in German, outlining the stages of liturgical processions in the nunnery. Rubrics refer to “swester”, and Latin prayers are written in the feminine case., Gothic liturgical book hand, Chant music included throughout test; music arranged on red 4-line staves with square notation in black; Latin words., and Jointly purchased by Western Michigan University and the Newberry Library in 1996.
- Date Created:
- [1450 TO 1469]
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- Bound in limp vellum wrapper formed from a 12th- or early 13th century noted breviary, possibly from Spain, with two wide laced leather strips around spine; folded vertically for travel., Top of two wrapped gatherings from a fifteenth-century portable antiphonary from Spain, containing text and musical score for chants for the Catholic liturgy for Palm Sunday folded vertically. Shown are two wide laced leather strips around the spine., Faded gothic text on the wrapper in two columns with twelve large decorated initials in red and green, and eleven lines of non-diastematic neumes in Catalan notation., and Jointly purchased by Western Michigan University and the Newberry Library in 1998.
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- Bound in limp vellum wrapper formed from a 12th- or early 13th century noted breviary, possibly from Spain, with two wide laced leather strips around spine; folded vertically for travel. Text of wrapper in two columns, with twelve large decorated initials in red and green, and eleven lines of non-diastematic neumes in Catalan notation., Staves and headings in red; text and notes in sepia, with 21 two line capitals and 48 single line initials in red or blue with alternate red or blue florishes infill. Pages lacking at end. Ink flaking from all leaves, front and back. Rubricated in red., Two gatherings from a fifteenth-century portable antiphonary from Spain, containing text and musical score for chants for the Catholic liturgy for Palm Sunday., 1 column of 7 lines alternating text and 5 line staves; large-format text in gothic hand, interspersed with partial and full pages of music in square notation., Full pages of square music notation in seven five-line staves., and Jointly purchased by Western Michigan University and the Newberry Library in 1998.
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- Bound in limp vellum wrapper formed from a 12th- or early 13th century noted breviary, possibly from Spain, with two wide laced leather strips around spine; folded vertically for travel., Staves and headings in red; text and notes in sepia, with 21 large capitals and 48 smaller initials in red or blue with alternate red or blue penwork infill., Leaf 84 recto and the inside of the back cover of a fifteenth-century portable antiphonary from Spain, containing text and musical score for chants for the Catholic liturgy for Palm Sunday., Large-format text in gothic hand, interspersed with partial and full pages of music in square notation. Text of wrapper in two columns, with twelve large decorated initials in red and green, and eleven lines of non-diastematic neumes in Catalan notation., Full pages of music contain seven five-line staves., and Jointly purchased by Western Michigan University and the Newberry Library in 1998.
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- Bound in limp vellum wrapper formed from a 12th- or early 13th century noted breviary, possibly from Spain, with two wide laced leather strips around spine; folded vertically for travel., Fore edge of two wrapped gatherings from a fifteenth-century portable antiphonary from Spain, containing text and musical score for chants for the Catholic liturgy for Palm Sunday folded vertically. Shown are two wide laced leather strips around the spine., Faded gothic text on the wrapper in two columns with twelve large decorated initials in red and green, and eleven lines of non-diastematic neumes in Catalan notation., and Jointly purchased by Western Michigan University and the Newberry Library in 1998.
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
