In commemoratione defunctorum

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Title: In commemoratione defunctorum
Alternative Title: Office for the Dead
Alternative Title [Supplied]: Office for the Dead
Creator: Catholic Church
Genre: codices
Format: text
Extent: 55 leaves : parchment ; 294 x 211 (240 x 145) mm.
Date Created [inferred/start]: 1450
Date Created [inferred/end]: 1499
Place of Publcation: [France?]
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).
Note [Physical Description]: 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  of rebinding
Note [Script]: Written in a Gothic Textualis  ("Quadratus") script. Text and music have been corrected, covered, or  revised with white paint (e.g. fol. 18v., fol. 31v.). Text has been  scraped off in places (e.g. fol. 51v.).
Source Document Location: University of Vermont Libraries. Special Collections.
Shelf Location: Rare Quarto BX2020 .A2 1400z
Language: Latin
Note [Digital Version]: 2010-04-22, Center for Digital Initiatives, University of Vermont Libraries
Note [Incipit]: Placebo. Seculorum. Amen. Psalmus, Dilexi quoniam exaudiet dominus
Note [Explicit]: ut indulgentiam quam semper optauerunt piis supplicationibus consequantur. Qui uiuis et regnas.
Note [Bibliography]: De Ricci, p. 2168, no. 1
Note [Provenance]: Given to UVM by the families of Charles Whittingham and Benjamin Franklin Stevens.
Digital Format: Text/Color: 24 bits; 300 ppi
Parent Collections: Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts
Date Created: 1450
1499
Access Conditions: No known copyright restrictions.

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