Antiphons, Responsories and Readings for the Virgin
Scribe: Keijffer, Georgius
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Paper (watermark unidentified, partially obscured in gutter), i paper flyleaf + 97 fols. (contemporary foliation in red ink 1 – 42 on fols. 3r – 44r, 1 – 8 on fols. 50r – 57r, and 1 – 20 on fols. 63r – 82r) + i paper flyleaf, 280 x 200 (200 x 155) mm, 2 columns, 27 – 32 lines, four-line musical staves ruled in red ink.
BINDING: 16th century, blind-stamped and blind-tooled pigskin over wooden boards, sewn on 4 supports, blind-stamped rolls of ornament and personifications of the Virtues inscribed CARIT[AS], SPES, FIDES, FORTI[TUDO] on both covers, central panel with Crucifixion, with letters H.V.M. below arms of the Cross, within oval shield flanked by angels and cherubs holding Instruments of the Passion on upper cover, central panel with Christ and the Samaritan Woman inscribed VIE CHRISTIVS MIT DEM SAMARISCHEN WEILRET below, with letters H.V.M. in border, on lower cover, two leather straps with metal clasps on lower cover, two catchplates on upper cover, gilt leather tabs.
CONTENTS: fols. 3 – 48 Antiphons, responses, and readings for the Virgin from Purification to Advent; fols. 50r – 57r Invitatories and sequences with music from the Conception of the Virgin to her Presentation in the Temple; fols. 57r – 58v Invitatories and sequences for other feasts (addition); fols. 62v – 82r Nine settings for Psalm 94; fols. 82v – 93v Lamentationes secundum reformatum Breviarium pro Choro Elchingensi (addition); fol. 97v Three-part setting of Ecce lignum Crucis for Abbas, Ministri, Chorus.
ORNAMENTATION: Frontispiece with space left blank within a frame composed of two pillars (fol. 2v); red, green and blue calligraphic initial [I, 25 ll.] with full border of red, blue and green penwork stylized scrolls; multi-coloured calligraphic initials [2 – 6 ll.] with stylized foliate and abstract infill and extensions; red penwork initials [1 – 2 ll.]; purple capitals with occasional calligraphic ornament in added Lamentationes (fols. 82v – 93v).
History note: Completed, signed, and dated 1585 by brother Georgius Keijffer at the Benedictine Abbey at Elchingen near Ulm, diocese of Augsburg, which was suppressed in 1802 (colophon, fol. 82r); still there in 1613 when Lamentationes were added and dated (fol. 93v); cutting from an unidentified sale catalogue in French, number trimmed off, pasted on fol. 1v; James Stewart Henderson (d.1933); his bequest, 1933.
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1933) by Henderson, James Stewart
16th Century, Late#
17th Century, Early#
Production date:
circa
AD 1585
Support
composed of
paper
Text
Height 200 mm
Width 155 mm
Page
Height 280 mm
Width 200 mm
Accession number: MS 360
Primary reference Number: 169780
Project ID: 3516
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Manuscripts and Printed Books
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