Processional, Dominican use


Description

Title
Processional, Dominican use
Published / Created
ca. 1440
Publication Place
Germany
Abstract
Manuscript on parchment. Written as a gift for Barbara Pfintzing, who entered a nunnery in 1441 at the age of 16. The text indicates that the manuscript was produced for use in a Dominican house of nuns; liturgical directions are written in German (the feminine forms in the antiphons and prayers often bear suprascript masculine endings, in red). and Written apparently in Southern Germany as a gift for Barbara Pfintzing, who entered a nunnery in 1441 at the age of 16 ... The text (see articles 1 and 4) indicates that the manuscript was produced for use in a Dominican house of nuns ...
Description
Binding: Sixteenth century. Resewn, using original sewing holes, on three double vegetable fiber cords laced into back-cornered and indented oak boards. Endbands embroidered on a strip of vellum and adhered, the vellum extending onto the outside of the boards. The spine is square and lined all along with manuscript fragments extending to the inside of the boards. Covered in vellum blind-tooled with concentric borders containing heads in oval frames among foliage in the outer, and busts of saints in the inner. Two brass fastenings, the catch on the upper board, straps attached to the lower with a metal plate. Straps wanting and a slight crack in one joint.
Script: Written by a single scribe in well formed gothic textura. Articles 1 and 6 have 4-line staves, in red, and black square notes.
Uninspired blue initial, 2-stave, on f. 1r, infilled and surrounded by red penwork flourishes with blue accents. Similar plain initials, 2-line, alternate in blue, red, and black with red throughout. Running titles and headings in red.
Extent
1 vol.
18 cm.
color illustrations
Extent of Digitization
Completely digitized
Language
German, Middle High (ca.1050-1500)
Latin

Collection Information

Call Number
Beinecke MS 205

Subjects, Formats, And Genres

Format
mixed material
Genre
Annotations
Inhabited initials
Manuscripts
Marginalia
Musical works
Rubrics
Resource Type
Archives or Manuscripts
Subject (Name)
Catholic Church--Liturgy
Dominicans--Manuscripts
Subject (Topic)
Dominican sisters
Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Monasticism and religious orders
Processionals (Liturgical books)

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Citation
Processional, Dominican Use. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University. and Shailor, B. Catalogue of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, MS 205.

Identifiers

Orbis Record
9795894
OID
2056332
More Information
https://pre1600ms.beinecke.library.yale.edu/docs/pre1600.ms205.htm

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