In commemoratione defunctorum

Parent Collections

Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts

Title

In commemoratione defunctorum

Title [Supplied]

Office for the Dead

Creator

Catholic Church

Date Created

1450-1499

Date Created [inferred/start]

1450

Date Created [inferred/end]

1499

Description

Text is a liturgy for observing a vigil for the deceased. The Office of the Dead is use of Paris as shown by the responses to the nine lessons, beginning respectively: Qui lazarum (image 23), Credo quod (image 25), Heu michi (image 27), Ne recorderis (image 36), Domine quando (image 38), Peccantem me (image 40), Domine secundum (image 50), Memento mei (image 52), Libera me domine de morte eterna (image 54). The second text in this codex is the Recommendation of Souls (images 75-105).

Extent

55 leaves : parchment ; 294 x 211 (240 x 145) mm.

Note [Bibliography]

De Ricci, p. 2168, no. 1

Note [Digital Version]

2010-04-22, Center for Digital Initiatives, University of Vermont Libraries

Note [Explicit]

ut indulgentiam quam semper optauerunt piis supplicationibus consequantur. Qui uiuis et regnas.

Note [Incipit]

Placebo. Seculorum. Amen. Psalmus, Dilexi quoniam exaudiet dominus

Note [Physical Details]

Collation:
 Parchment, fol. i (modern parchment) + ii + 51 + ii + i (modern
 parchment); Original front flyleaves are two half sheets, 1⁸
 2⁴ (+1 leaf after 1) 3-6⁸ 7⁶ (1 and 2 are half
 sheets), original back flyleaves are a conjugate bifolio. Layout:
 Written in 21 long lines, below top line; ruled in red ink. Decoration:
 Illuminated and decorated initials and line fillers in gold, green, red,
 and blue. Profiles of droll faces in initials of antiphons. Music:
 Contains musical notation written on red, four-line staves.

2001, goatskin and wood. Text and parchment were cleaned and paint was consolidated at time‚Ä® of rebinding

Note [Provenance]

Given to UVM by the families of Charles Whittingham and Benjamin Franklin Stevens.

Note [Script]

Written in a Gothic Textualis‚Ä® ("Quadratus") script. Text and music have been corrected, covered, or‚Ä® revised with white paint (e.g. fol. 18v., fol. 31v.). Text has been‚Ä® scraped off in places (e.g. fol. 51v.).

Genre

codices

Type of Resource

text

Shelf Location

Rare Quarto BX2020 .A2 1400z

Place of Publication

[France?]

Date Captured

2010-04-14

Access Conditions

No Copyright - United States

Access Conditions [Local]

For further information please contact Special Collections, University of Vermont Libaries at uvmsc@uvm.edu.

Identifier [Local]

mrmc001

Language

Latin

Language [Code]

lat

Digital Format

image/tiff

Digital Format

Text/Color: 24 bits; 300 ppi