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Antiphons, Responsories and Readings for the Virgin: MS 360

Object information

Current Location: In storage

Titles

Antiphons, Responsories and Readings for the Virgin

Maker(s)

Scribe: Keijffer, Georgius

Entities

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Description

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).

Notes

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.

Place(s) associated

  • Elchingen ⪼ Bavaria

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1933) by Henderson, James Stewart

Dating

16th Century, Late#
17th Century, Early#
Production date: circa AD 1585

People, subjects and objects depicted

Project

  • Cambridge Illuminated

Materials used in production

Gold

Components of the work

Support composed of paper
Text Height 200 mm Width 155 mm
Page Height 280 mm Width 200 mm

Techniques used in production

Penwork
Illumination

Inscription or legends present

  • Text: Ad laudes et per horas
  • Location: Fol. 4
  • Type: Secundo folio

References and bibliographic entries

Identification numbers

Accession number: MS 360
Primary reference Number: 169780
Project ID: 3516
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Audit data

Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Monday 24 August 2020 Last processed: Thursday 7 December 2023

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Manuscripts and Printed Books

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