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Corporate Author:
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Catholic Church.
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Uniform Title:
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Missal (Ms. Free Library of Philadelphia. Lewis E 158)
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Title:
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[Noted Dominican missal].
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Publication Information:
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[Paris, ca. 1265-1285].
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Physical Description:
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434 leaves : parchment, ill. ; 200 x 130 mm.
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General Note:
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Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Collation: Parchment, fol. iii (parchment) + 434 leaves + i (parchment)
Layout: Written in 2 columns of 30 lines; lead point ruling; textblock: 136 x 88 mm; 4-line red musical staves with square notation throughout.
Script: Written in gothic bookhand and Italian rotunda.
Decoration: 13 historiated initials with short marginal extensions, 17 decorated initials with interlaced strap design; penwork initials in red and blue with long marginal extensions throughout.
Music: Contains musical notation.
Shelfmark: Philadelphia, Free Library of Philadelphia, MS Lewis E 158.
The liturgy of the missal follows the Dominican liturgy established by Humbert of Romans, Master General of the Dominican Order (1254-1263.) Text bears resemblance to London, British Library, Add. Ms. 23935. Several entries in calendar suggest Dominican usage, including Sts. Thomas Aquinas (January 28, translation and March 7), Peter Martyr (April 29), Dominic (May 24, translation and August 5) and anniversary of Dominican Order (September 5th). Suggested continued Dominican use are prayers added in the fourteenth century to St. Louis of Toulouse (fol. 433v.)
The missal contains writing by three contemporary scribes. The main portion of the text was executed by a French scribe. Fols. 20v-21v were executed by a second French scribe. Several entries in the calendar and the inscriptions on fols. 183r and 184r were executed nearly contemporaneously by an Italian scribe. The Prayers of St. Ambrose (fols. 431v-432v) were added by an Italian scribe later in the 13th or the 14th century. Additional prayers (fols. 433v-434v) were written by various scribes from the 14th to the 17th centuries.
Two identical prayers in the margins indicate an Italian provenance and provide a terminus ante quem date for production. Inscriptions in lower margins of fols. 183r (partially erased) and 184r in contemporary Italian rotunda are a repeated prayer to Charles I, King of Siciliy (r. 1265-1285) and to his wife, children, parents and deceased friends: "Ora p[ro] d[omi]no karolo p[rim]o rege sicilie et d[omi]na beatrice ux[ore] eor[um]que lib[er]is p[ar]entib[us] et amicis defunctis." Prayers and additions to calendar, in 15th and 17th centuries, by Italian scribes (Wolf, pp. 170-173).
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Contents:
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1. fol. 1r-6v: Graded calendar, Dominican use.
2. fol. 7r-21v: Introduction, including comments on singing and practical information about the conduct of office.
3. fol. 22r-23v: Prayers sung before the Mass, including the "Asperges" and the "Vidi aquam."
4. fol. 24r-182v: Temporale, first part, beginning with first Sunday in Advent.
5. fol. 183r-185v: Orda missae.
6. fol. 186r-272r: Temporale continued.
7. fol. 273r-353r: Sanctorale.
8. fol. 353r-400r: Common of the Saints.
9. fol. 400r-406v: Kyrie eleison, Gloria in excelsis, Agnus dei, Sanctus.
10. fol. 406v-431r: Sequentiary.
11. fol. 431v-432v: "Prayers of St. Ambrose" attributed to John of FeĢcamp (d. 1079)
12. fol. 433v-434v: A prayer for sailors, the offices of St. Louis, the translation of Mary Magdalene and the translation of St. Nicholas to Bari.
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Corporate Subject:
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Catholic Church Prayer-books and devotions Latin.
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Subject Term:
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Manuscripts, Latin Medieval and modern Pennsylvania Philadelphia.
Missals France Paris.
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Gothic France Paris.
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Added Author:
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Lewis, John Frederick,
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Added Author:
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Johannes Grusch Atelier.
Free Library of Philadelphia.
Free Library of Philadelphia.
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