Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts
Notre Dame/Newberry MS. 1
Carthusian homiliary and rule
Contents:
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Sanctorale
extent:ff. 1r-52v
rubric:
Incipit omeliae sanctorum. In sancto Andrea. Sermo beati Augustini episcopi lectio
incipit:
MIRUM quibusdam uidetur frtres mei eum audiunt
explicit:
sui esse mercedem. Explicit Comune Sanctorum
decoration:On f. 1r 8-line tall initial in red and blue with marginal flourishes in red blue and yellow. Alternating red and blue paraph marks and red and blue 3-line tall initials throughout the text.
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Temporale
extent:ff. 52v-82v
rubric:
Incipiunt epstole beati pauli apostoli legende tam dominicis diebus quam ferialibus usque ad lxx. Que legi incipiuntur prima die post circumcisionem. Incipit epistola ad romanos
incipit:
Paulus seruus Iesu christi uocatus apostolus segregatus
explicit:
⁊ deuorabit edes eius
decoration:Alternating red and blue paraph marks and red and blue 2 to 3-line tall initials throughout the text.
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Office of the Dead
extent:ff. 82v-86r
rubric:
Incipit officium defunctorum. Ad vesperas
incipit:
antiphona pacebo psalmus Dilexi
explicit:
psalmus De profundis ⁊caetera Ordines ut supra
decoration:Alternating red and blue 3-line tall initials throughout the text.
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Statutes of the Carthusian Order
extent:ff. 86r-93v
rubric:
Incipiunt constitutiones diuini officii secundum ordinem carthusiensem
incipit:
dominica quae festo sancti andree magis
explicit:
sed beata martir imploret ⁊ caetera.
decoration:Alternating red and blue 2-line tall initials throughout the text.
Date of origin:Based on the selection of sermons, a date of 1342-1367 is most likely.
Place of origin: Bologna, Italy
Support:
Parchment codex
Foliation:
Numbered in lead in a modern hand in the upper right hand corner of each leaf. Contemporary foliation near upper right corner in roman numerals in red up to f. 52.
Dimensions:153 mm x 108mm (leaves), 97mm x 62mm (ruled space)
Collation:14 2-128 132 (-2) Catchwords are present and correct at the bottom center of the last leaf of each quire.
Script:Written in a northern Italian gothic bookhand by two scribes. The first scribe is responsible for the homilary up to f. 86r. The second is responsible for the statutes of the Carthusian Order from f. 86r to the end of the manuscript.
Binding:Bound in modern red velvet.
Additions:There is a single annotation, in a near contemporary hand on f. 82v.
Provenance:Bookplate of Bernard Jean on front free endleaf. The manuscript is jointly owned with the Newberry Library and shelved at the Newberry as MS. 148.
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