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Devotional texts and antiphons.

Accession number
MS W.32
Object title
Devotional texts and antiphons.
Created
Germany, 1543
Binding
16th-century blind-stamped calf over boards, one brass clap; end pastedown is a vellum cutting from an earlier text, written in 2 columns.
Credit line
Bequest of Julia Wightman, 1994.
Description
139 leaves (1 column, 11 lines - fols. 1-87; 8-10 lines - Part 2, fols. 1-52), bound : vellum (fols. 1-87) and paper (fols. 1-52), ill. ; 76 x 67 mm.
Provenance
Christophoro Grasperger; given by Grasperger to Caspar Curtius Toeplensis in 1585 (inscription on fol. 1); Erasmus Antiquariat, Amsterdam; purchased by Julia Parker Wightman in 1967 (JPW 6161); Julia Parker Wightman Bequest in 1994.
Notes
Ms. devotional texts and antiphons, use of Rome (Office of the Dead); written in Germany, dated 1543 on fol. 49v, part 2 (136v cumulative folio count).
Texts: Part 1: fols. 1-3v - Sancti Spiritus and Veni creator spiritus; fols. 3v-23v - 7 Penitential Psalms; fols. 23v-28v - Litany; fols. 28v-87 - Office of the Dead for Matins; Part 2: fols. 1-52 - Antiphons and Office of the Dead for Matins. Lleaves are foliated 1-87 on the vellum section, Part 1, and 1-52 on the paper section, Part 2.
Musical notation: 4-line red staves with hofnagel notation.
Script
textura and cursive.
Language
In Latin;
Century
Classification