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 paste downs, 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 paste downs.
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.
Rights Statement:
Rights Status:
No Copyright - United States
Access Rights:
Digital reproduction published by Western Michigan University and made available for private study, scholarship or research use under applicable U.S. Law. Access to digital reproductions provided by Special Collections at Zhang Legacy Collections Center, Western Michigan University.
Cistercian Antiphonary, vol. 2, fol. 3
