(Q8667)
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Texts for the Commemorative Office of the Virgin Mary and notated Office of the Dead.
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Catholic Church--Prayers and devotions--Early works to 1800
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1596.
16. century
1596
1596
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Extent: 131 leaves : paper, color illustrations, music ; 204 x 140 (166 x 107) mm bound to 205 x 145 mm
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Ms. codex.
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Origin: Written in the Benedictine abbey in Elchingen (Bavaria), in 1596 (f. 96r).
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Title supplied by cataloger.
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Binding: Original 16th-century vellum over pasteboard, gold-stamped with stamps of the Annunciation (upper cover) and the Nativity (lower cover) and gold-tooled borders; remnants of 2 pairs of ties.
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Decoration: 3 full-page borders in colored inks with architectural columns (f. 1v, 54v, 69v); 5-line initial and full scrollwork border in colored inks (f. 2r); 8-line initial in colored inks and first words in display uncials in red ink (f. 84v); 2-line initial in 2 colors and knotwork design in colored inks (f. 96r); 1- to 3-line initials in various colors throughout; rubrication...
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Script: Written in a German Gothic script by Georg Keysser (f. 96r).
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Layout: Written in 2 columns of 27 lines (f. 2r-95v) and 2 columns of 6 staves (f. 97v-107v); frame-ruled in red ink with text ruled in lead.
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Collation: Paper, 131; 1⁶(-1) 2¹⁰ 3⁶ 4¹⁰ 5⁶ 6¹⁰ 7-9⁶ 10¹⁰(-1) 11-13⁸ 14⁸(+1) 15⁸(-2) 16¹⁰ 17⁸; contemporary foliation in red ink, upper center recto, 1-5, 7, 6, 8-53, 53--66, [67], 68-76, 78-94, [i], 95-96 (=f. 2-98); modern foliation in pencil, [v, 1-126], upper right recto. References in this record are to modern foliation. Catchwords on almost every page, lower right recto or verso.
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Music: Contains Hufnagelschrift notation on 5-line staves in the Office of the Dead (f. 97r-107v), with later additions in square notation on 4-line staves (f. 108r-108v).
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Sold by Les Enluminures (Paris and Chicago), 2011.
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Held in the abbey library no later than 1802, when the monastery was secularized and the contents of its library sent to Munich.
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19 September 2023
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19 September 2023
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