[Hymns and prayers]
- Description
- Manuscript collection of texts of hymns and prayers bound with slightly later printed pastoral works appropriate for a priest. The first 6 gatherings of the manuscript section (f. 1-72) contain 86 hymns and prayers in Latin with interlinear German, each followed by a German translation, including Conditor alme siderum (f. 1r), Veni redemptor genitum (f. 1v), Criste redemptor omnium (f. 7r), Ave maris stella (f. 14v), Veni creator spiritus (f. 38r). The first gathering has an added leaf (f. 5) with the abecedarian poem A solis ortus cardine by the 5th-century poet Sedulius, written in a different 15th-century Gothic cursive hand. Some of the Latin texts in this section have numerical notations above words. The sequence Ave praeclara maris stella, with Latin and German text intermingled, has been added by another hand on the last leaves of this section (f. 70v-72r). The last gathering of the manuscript section (f. 73-86), in a different hand and slightly different format, contains 30 hymns in Latin all with numerical notation above words in the text and with marginal commentary. Notes by later hands are dated 1556 (f. 86r) and 1553 (last flyleaf). Printed works precede and follow the manuscript section. An edition of the Liber florum beati Bernardi abbatis Clarevallensis printed in Augsburg in 1519 comprises the first half of the volume. Editions published in 1515 in Leipzig by Melchior Lotter of the Stella clericorum, an anonymous 13th-century pastoral handbook, and the Secreta sacerdotum by Heinrich von Langenstein, follow the manuscript section.
- Creator
- Lotter, Melchior, approximately 1470-1549 (publisher)
- Form
- manuscripts (documents)
- codices (bound manuscripts)
- glosses (annotations)
- translations (documents)
- Manuscripts, Renaissance
- hymns
- prayers (compositions)
- devotional literature
- Date
- 1475
- Language
- Latin
- German
- Subject
- Catholic Church -- Hymns -- Texts -- Early works to 1800
- Catholic Church -- Prayers and devotions -- Early works to 1800
- Catholic Church
- Extent
- 86 leaves : paper ; 210 x 152 (150 x 89) mm bound to 219 x 172 mm
- Notes
- Ms. codex.
- Title supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch).
- Collation: Paper, 86; 1¹²(-1+1) 2-6¹² 7¹⁴; [1-86], modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto. Link to collation model at end of record.
- Layout: Written in 29 long lines; Latin texts are written on alternate lines with interlinear glosses.
- Script: Latin written in a Gothic hybrid script and German written in a cursive script, by at least 2 hands (f. 1-72, 73-86).
- Decoration: 2- to 4-line initials and rubrics in red throughout; initials in text touched with red; the red initials in the last gathering of the manuscript section (f. 73-86) have faces and penwork added in black ink.
- Binding: 16th-century pigskin (Zacour-Hirsch) over spine and inner half of wooden boards with a pair of metal catches on the upper cover and bases for straps on the lower cover; S. Bernardi Liber Florum, written in ink on the spine, refers to the author and title of the printed work at the beginning of the volume.
- Origin: Manuscript section written in Germany in the late 15th century (Zacour-Hirsch); bound with works printed in the 16th century..
- Latin with German interlinear glosses and translations.
- Related Work: Heinrich, von Langenstein, approximately 1325-1397. Secreta sacerdotum.
- Related works
- Digital facsimile for browsing (Colenda)
- Collation model
- Also listed in
- Penn Libraries Catalog
- Physical Location
- Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Ms. Codex 1604
- Provenance
- Gift of R. D. Jo[hannes?] Heussius to the Jesuit house at Oettingen (Altötting), 1603 (inscriptions on title page of first printed work).
- Purchased, 1959; transferred from Culture Class collection, 2011.
- Rights
- http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
- Resource Type
- Text
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