Prayerbook : in Latin with German rubrics

Title:: Prayerbook : in Latin with German rubrics
Former owner:: Antiquarian Books of Boston
Date:: [ca. 1501]
Format:: Manuscripts
Books
Sheet music
Genre:: Manuscripts, Medieval--Germany
Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)--Germany
Manuscripts, German--Germany
Paste paper bindings
Prayer books
Gothic scripts
Location:: Boston Public Library
Rare Books Department
Collection (local):: Medieval and Early Renaissance Manuscripts
Subjects:: Catholic Church--Prayers and devotions--Early works to 1800
Places:: Germany
Extent:: 33 leaves : paper ; 148 x 105 (92 x 72) mm bound to 16 cm
Permalink:: https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/x633p589z
Terms of Use:: No Copyright - United States
No known copyright restrictions.
No known restrictions on use.

Place of origin:: [Germany]
Language:: Latin
German
Table of Contents:: 1. fol. 1-18: Psalms.
2. fol. 18v-24v: Passion according to St. John.
3. fol. 25-26: John 19:31-42.
4. fol. 26v: musical addition of Ave Maria and several hymns ending with Te Deum, ("Sanctus Sanctus dominus deus sabaoth/ Pleni sunt celi et ter..." [ends imperfectly]
Notes:: Ms. codex.
Bibliographic record created by BPL staff based primarily on description by Dr. Lisa Fagin Davis.
Title devised by cataloger.
Origin: Written in northern Germany in the early 16th century.
Notes (acquisition):: Immediate source of acquisition: Purchased in 2005 from Antiquarian Books of Boston.
Notes (object):: Secundo folio: ...devote recolimus dignare...
Collation: Paper with watermark: a circle enclosing the letter M and three horizontal lines, surmounted by a simple star, fol. i (modern endpaper) + 33 + i (modern endpaper) ; 1-2¹² 3¹²⁻³ (three leaves lacking at end) ; modern arabic pencil foliation, upper outer corner each recto.
Layout: Single column, 18 lines. Bounding and writing lines in blind, music on fol. 27-33 only, rhythmic mensural notation on five-line staff.
Script: Written in a gothic cursive (fol. 27-33 later crude gothic formata) in black ink with red rubrics.
Binding: 19th-century paste paper over pasteboard.
Notes (language):: In Latin and German.
Identifier:: 06_01_018729
Call #:: RARE BKS MS q Med.250
Barcode:: 39999090789569