COLLECTION NAME:
Medieval Document Collection
Record
Identifier:
exwsms017_vol2_003r
Manuscript Identifier:
MS 017 vol 2
Title:
Cistercian Antiphonary, vol. 2, fol. 3
Alternative Title:
MS 017, vol. 2, fol. 3
Incipit:
Custodit Dominus psalmus
Author:
Catholic Church
Origin Date:
1544
Origin Location:
Belgium
Description:
A Cistercian Antiphonary comprising two separately bound volumes, portions of the Temporal (I) and a complete Sanctoral (II). The Sanctoral covers the full year, but omits many feasts.
Provenance:
Produced for Abbess Mechtilde de Lechy of Herkenrode (Cottineau I, 1403), diocese of Liège, in 1544: "Anno a partu virgineo millesimo quingentesimo quadragesimo quarto hunc librum conscribi fecit veneabilis domina, domina Mechtildis de Lechy, suo tempore abatissa huius monasterii de Herkenrode." Ownership inscription on f. 165v: "Libero Beate Marie de Herkenrode." Mechtilde was also responsible for the Abbey's stained glass window of the Virgin and St Bernard, resembling the depiction on f. 2r; Archologia, 108 (1986), 198. The MS, with its companion volume, likely remained at Herkenrode until the Abbey's suppression in 1796.
Provenance:
The MSS were transferred to the Abbey of Sept-Fons (Cottineau II, 3011), Allier, France. Volumes I and II shelf marked 20 (Vol. II) and 21 (Vol. I), bookplates for the abbey on front pastedowns, library stamps on f. 1r in Vol. I and f. 2r in Vol. II.
Provenance:
Acquired for the Abbey of Gethsemani before 1935, Abbot Edmond Obrecht's descriptions tipped in on the front pastedowns.
Secundo Folio:
Aspiciens a
Extent:
leaf 3r
Subject:
Catholic Church--Liturgy--Texts
Subject:
Antiphonaries--Early works to 1800
Subject:
Historiated initials
Subject:
llumination of books and manuscripts--Belgium--16th century
Subject:
Service books (Music)--Catholic Church--Early works to 1800
Language:
lat
Dimensions:
585 x 395 mm
Material:
parchment
Collation:
1⁸, 1 is a pastedown, 2-8⁸, 9¹º, 11-17⁸, 18⁸ wants 6, 19-21⁶, 2⁶ wants 6. Gatherings signed in alphabetical characters on recto of final leaf. Catchwords.
Foliation:
fol. 165 + i, foliated (1), 2-165, (166); additionally, fol. 2v-10v paginated 1-18, ff. 11r-149r foliated 19-45,47-75,78-160 on versos in ink.
Binding:
Bound in sixteenth-century blind tooled leather over boards, five brass bosses and corners and a single plate for a clasp remains on lower board.
Decoration Description:
fol. 2r: A three quarter border, sides and bottom of page, ornamental foliage, birds, urns, cameo portraits, including a portrait of the Abbess Mechtilde, and the coat of arms of the Abbess or the abbey; on fol. 36v, 51r, and 110r: full frame floral borders, inhabited by various birds and insects, fol. 110r features a cameo portrait of a man in the upper border and one of a woman in the lower. Initials: fol. 2r: five-line historiated initial "A" in gold containing a depiction of the appearance of the Virgin to St Bernard; fol. 110r: four-line historiated initial "V" depicting Joseph in the well; one- to four-line decorated initials passim, often vegetative forms, some inhabited by human figures or birds; one-line black pen initials with painted infillings passim, one-line single color initials in blue and red passim.
Description of Hands:
Written in gothic textualis.
Is Part Of:
Manuscript 17, The Obrecht Collection of Gethsemani Abbey, Trappist Kentucky.
Is Part Of:
Medieval Document Collection
Publisher:
Western Michigan University
Date-Issued:
2016
Type:
Text
Format:
image/tiff
Format-Extent:
100,342,692 bytes
Is Referenced By:
Ricci, S. De and W.J. Wilson. 1935. Census of medieval and renaissance manuscripts in the United States and Canada. New York: Wilson. v. 1, p. 735
Is Referenced By:
Bay, Christian. Trappist Library in Kentucky, The American Collector 4:1 (Apr. 1927):13, 17-19.
Access Rights:
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Cistercian Antiphonary, vol. 2, fol. 3
