University of Pennsylvania, Ms. Codex 1590
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS1420
- Shelfmark:
- Ms. Codex 1590
- Title:
- Antiphonary; use of Lyon
- Catholic Church
- Place:
- Lyon?, France
- Date:
- between 1275 and 1325
- Language:
- Latin, with a few marginal notes in French
- Material:
- parchment, color illustrations, music
- Physical Description:
- Extent: 176 leaves : parchment, color illustrations, music ; 256 x 185 (200 x 127-132) mm bound to 265 x 195 mm
- Former Owner(s):
- Faverjon, Franciscus
Giraud, Petrus
Gendreau, Georges
Cathédrale Saint-Jean-Baptiste (Lyon, France)
- Note:
- Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Collation: Parchment, i (late 17th- or 18th-century paper) + 176 + i (late 17th- or 18th-century paper); 18 210(-1) 310(-2) 4-108 116 12-218 226(-1) 236(-1); i-clxxvi, [1-176]; near-contemporary foliation in roman numerals in ink, upper left verso; modern foliation in ink, upper right recto. Link to collation model at end of record.
Layout: Written in up to 12 staves per leaf, with a line of text below each staff, except for the last gathering (f. 172-176), which is written in 2 columns of 13 staves (f. 172r-173r) and 14 staves with no side margins (f. 173v-176v); ruled in lead; some prickings visible.
Script: Written in a Gothic script.
Decoration: 9 large puzzle initials in red and blue with red and blue filigree penwork extending in the margins (f. 29v, 33v, 40v, 87v, 104r, 107v, 111v, 123v, 145r); smaller initials in red with blue filigree or blue with red filigree throughout; staves and rubrics in red; later addition of a small drawing in ink in place of a missing initial I (f. 144v).
Music: Square notation on 4-line staves in red ink.
Binding: Late 17th- or 18th-century calf over pasteboards (Les Enluminures).
Origin: Written in France, probably Lyon, in the last quarter of the 13th or first quarter of the 14th century (Les Enluminures).
Possibly copied for and used in the Cathédrale Saint-Jean-Baptiste in Lyon (Les Enluminures).
Ownership inscriptions: Franciscus Faverjon (f. 58v, uncovered parchment pastedown inside lower cover), Petrus Giraud (f. 168v), both in 16th-century cursive hands.
Formerly owned by Georges Gendreau, curator of the Bibliothèque de la ville de Fontainebleau, who acquired it when it was being sold as bookbinder's waste.
Sold by Les Enluminures (Paris and Chicago), 2011. - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://find.library.upenn.edu/catalog/9949613113503681
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p3r20rz7j/manifest
- Holding Institution:
