IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 169780 accession number: MS 360 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 24 August 2020 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: 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). title: antiphoner NOTES ----- type: history note value: 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. LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Manuscripts and Printed Books STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/169780 PEOPLE ------------------- Henderson, James Stewart Benedictine Abbey at Elchingen TECHNIQUES ---------- penwork TECHNIQUES ---------- illumination CATEGORIES ------ category: illuminated manuscript category: manuscript DATING ------ creation date: 1585 - 1585 creation date earliest: 1585 creation date latest: 1585 culture: 16th Century, Late# culture: 17th Century, Early# CREATORS -------- maker: Keijffer, Georgius CITATIONS -------- A Descriptive Catalogue of the Additional Manuscripts in the Fitzwilliam Musuem Acquired between 1895-1979 (excluding the McClean Collection) A Catalogue of Western Book Illumination in the Fitzwilliam Museum and the Cambridge Colleges. Part One. Vol. 1: The Frankish Kingdoms, Northern Netherlands, Germany, Bohemia, Hungary, Austria; Vol. II: The Meuse Region, Southern Netherlands ---