Missal (DS4510) (Q21030)

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Manuscript metadata collected by Digital Scriptorium from Free Library of Philadelphia (Lewis E 161, Lewis E 161)
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Missal (DS4510)
Manuscript metadata collected by Digital Scriptorium from Free Library of Philadelphia (Lewis E 161, Lewis E 161)

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    Extent: 264; 360 x 263 mm bound to 383 x 285 mm; parchment
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    The small miniature in the lower margin of fol. 128v, almost a duplicate of a larger version of the Crucifixion on the previous folio, was placed there for the priest to kiss as part of the celebration of the Eucharist; one often finds two images of the Crucifixion at the Canon of the Mass so that the larger, more beautiful miniature would be preserved from the wear of repeated kissing
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    Paint in small miniature on 128v is severely worn; several tears in parchment have been sewn with thread
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    Structure of first and last quires unclear, two stubs between fol. 6 and fol. 7 and stubs conjoined with fols. 263 and 264 appear to be bound into the back inside cover
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    Binding: Contemporary blind stamped calf over wooden boards, a circular stamp with a flowering pot with lozenge shaped compartments on the sides, rebacked, with clasps. [Per Pfändtner, stamps are identical to those of a Nuremberg Augustinian convent datable from 1501 to 1526] Inside the front cover is a Post-It note reading, "T. F. Richardson Lectionary German 14th Century or early 15th. 261...
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    Layout: Written area 256 x 167 mm, ink ruling, pricking visible; two columns of twenty-five to thirty-four lines; first leaf consists of a single column of thirty-two lines; leaves are foliated in upper margins with alphabetical letters and numerals, fifteen leaves per letter from a-i, ten leaves per letter from k-t; u has five numbered leaves before foliation stops at fol. 248r. Arabic...
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    Script: Gothic bookhand
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    Decoration: One full-page miniature in ink, paint, and gold and one small marginal miniature in ink and paint; seven large flourished initials with marginal extensions and numerous smaller decorated initials throughout, with occasional decorated ascenders; marginal annotations are visible throughout in a variety of hands; seventeen finding tabs are attached to ends of various leaves
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    Related resource: De Ricci, Seymour, with the assistance of W. J. Wilson, Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada, vol. 2 (New York,: H. W. Wilson, 1935-40), p. 2030, no. 33.
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    Related resource: Free Library of Philadelphia, A Descriptive Catalogue of the John Frederick Lewis Collection of European Manuscripts in the Free Library of Philadelphia, compiled by Edwin Wolf, 2nd, with an introduction by Dr. A.S.W. Rosenbach (Philadelphia: The Free Library, 1937), p. 175-176, no. 161.
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    Related resource: Pfändtner, Karl-Georg, "An Unknown Forchheim Missal in the Free Library of Philadelphia," Manuscripta 49 (2005): pp. 59-68.
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    Provenance: Saint Catherine's Hospital, Forchhiem, Bavaria [?]; Thomas F. Richardson, Boston, sold 1919; John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia; given by his widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1936; Signature and stamp of J. F. Lewis on fol. 1r, dated 1919, along with the stamp of the Thomas F. Richardson Collection
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    Contributor: Diane Biunno
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    Cataloger: Dot Porter
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    Funder: Council on Library and Information Resources
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    4 December 2023
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    4 December 2023
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