Item Summary

Descriptive Information

Title
Pontifical.
Call Number
Princeton MS. 7
Identifier
ark:/88435/dcdf65vm409
Publisher
[Naples, Italy] : [producer not identified], [between 1300 and 1325]
Language
Latin
Date Created
1300-1325
Extent
1 volume (iii, 95, iii leaves) : parchment ; 28 cm
Provenance
Princeton MS. 7 is of unknown early and intermediate provenance. The manuscript was produced in Italy, possibly Naples, for the use of a bishop. Judging from the Spanish text added on fol. 95r, the manuscript found its way to Spain or into the hands of a Spanish cleric by the 15th century. Moses Taylor Pyne (1855-1921), Class of 1877, acquired the manuscript in the late 19th century and donated it to the Princeton University Library, although it was not formally accessioned until 5 June 1905 (Acc. no. 192374).
Source Acquisition
Gift of Moses Tayler Pyne, 1905.
References
Medieval & Renaissance manuscripts in the Princeton University Library, volume 2, pages163-165.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Contents
1.1r-95r: “||pars hereditatis mee et calicis mei. Ps. Conserua me, usque Tu es. Et repetatur Tu [es]. Gloria patri. Et repetatur. Tu [es] Domine. Hic accipiet benedictionem a domino et misericordiam a deo salutari suo, quia hec est generatio querentum dominum ...” Explicit: “ || regnas in unitate eiusdem. Postea dicitur letania quia primo processit. ubi est hoc signum .II.||”
2.95r: “Asperges me domine ysopo et mundabor lauabis me et super nivem dealbabor ...” Explicit: “Et defende faziendo una cruz sobre la piedra desde que fuere puesta y firmada allí onde ha de estar sobre el lodo o sobre la cal. Dicatur beneditio (!). Benedictio dei omnipotentis patris et filii et spiritus sancti descendat super hunc lapidem et maneat semper amen.”
Notes
Script: Textualis rotunda. One scribe was responsible for fols. 1r-94v, and another for fol. 95r. In the bottom margin of fols. 67v and 69r are erased prayers in another hand.
Decoration: Italian Gothic (Neapolitan?), early 14th century.
Binding Note
United States, 20th century. The present manuscript was unbound when received by the Princeton University Library from the donor in the late 19th century. Bound in 1996 by Scott Husby in the Preservation Office, using existing modern foliation written in pencil in the lower right margins.

Discovery Information

Subject
Catholic Church—Liturgy—Texts—Early works to 1800
Pontificals—Texts—Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)—Italy
Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)—New Jersey—Princeton
Illumination of books and manuscripts

Physical Characteristics

File Count
206

Institutional Information

Collection
Medieval and Renaissance Mediterranean Manuscripts
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/7be03055-8637-4a2b-8812-058b9e5f20a5/manifest