Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

MSE 1384
Hymnal from the Convent of St. Raymond of Peñafort
Contents:
  1. Introits for Sundays of the liturgical year
  2. Antiphons for feasts of the liturgical year
  3. Various Masses
  4. Text for compline
Date of origin:Later 17th century.
Place of origin: Vilafranca del Penedés, Spain

Support: Paper codex with watermarks: orb with letters TP surmounted by a cross and teardrop with a cross.
Foliation:Numbered in ink in the upper right corner of each leaf by a later hand. F. 111 is skipped with the result that ff. 112, 113, and 114 should be 111, 112, and 113 respectively.
Dimensions:328mm x 232mm (leaves)
Collation:16 22 36 410 56 610 (-10) 7-138 1410 158 (-7, -8) 164 (-3, -4)
Script:The text is in formal humanist cursive in a four hands and in a fifth hand in a gothic textualis with some rotunda characteristics.

Binding:Bound in contemporary limp vellum with title on spine.
Additions:Bound at the end are a set of printed leaves with four settings of Psalm 94 and texts for the feast of St. Margaret. These leaves are numbered 121-146.
Provenance:The manuscript was owned by the Dominican convent of St. Raymond de Peñafort in the diocese of Barcelona.