Ceremonial for a convent of Poor Clares (San Lorenzo in Parisperna).

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Title: Ceremonial for a convent of Poor Clares (San Lorenzo in Parisperna).
Published / Created: [between 1550 and 1599].
Publication Place: Rome, Italy
Abstract: Manuscript on parchment of a ceremonial for the San Lorenzo convent of the order of Poor Clares in Panisperna. Includes ceremonials for investiture, veiling, extreme unction, funerals, and other occasions
Description: Script: The main text (artt. 1-9) is copied in black and red ink by a single hand in Humanistica Cursiva Formata. A later hand added art. 10 in an irregular Humanistica Cursiva.
Decoration: Rubrics and alternative text parts in red. Majuscules highlighted in yellow. 1-line versals alternately in red and blue. 2-line (rarely 3-line) plain or flourished initials, in red or alternately in red and blue, with penwork in the contrasting color, coarsely executed. Art. 10 is undecorated.
Binding: Original brown leather over wooden boards sewn on three split leather(?) thongs. Both covers blind-tooled with frames of multiple fillets and hand-tools. Remnants of two clasps attached to the front board and catches on the rear board. Gilt edges.
In Latin.
Provenance: Purchased on the Edwin J. Beinecke Fund.
Extent: ff. iii (paper) + 56 + iii (paper) : 170 x 115 mm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: Latin

Genre: Manuscripts, Renaissance Italy 16th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Material: parchment ;
Resource Type: unspecified
Subject (Geographic): Connecticut
New Haven.
Subject (Name): Poor Clares.
Subject (Topic): Manuscripts, Medieval
Service books (Music)
Catholic Church
Subjects: Poor Clares
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Service books (Music) > Catholic Church
Italy > 16th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library

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Citation: Ceremonial for a convent of Poor Clares. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.