Wrocław, Zakład Narodowy im. Ossolińskich - Biblioteka, Rkp. 12025/IV

Cantus Siglum

PL-WRzno Rkp. 12025/IV

Holding Institution

Wrocław, Zakład Narodowy im. Ossolińskich - Biblioteka (PL-WRzno)

Manuscript/Printed

Manuscript

Summary

Antiphoner. 201 pp. Writing Material: parchment. 500 x 360 mm. Secular cursus.

Description

Provenance (origin): one of the three original manuscripts for the Carmelite convent in Kraków (along with Kraków Mss.1 and 2); copied in Prague and brought to Kraków for the foundation of the convent in 1397
Provenance (usage): Kraków, Carmelite convent
Provenance (subsequent history): sold, and later entered the Biblioteka Narodowa "Ossolineum" of Wrocław
Noteworthy Details: This is one of six antiphoners indexed by CANTUS that were used at the Carmelite convent in Kraków. The other five manuscripts are:
Kraków, Klastor OO. Karmelitów na Piasku (Carmelite Convent), Ms.1 (rkp. Perg. 12)
Kraków, Klastor OO. Karmelitów na Piasku (Carmelite Convent), Ms.2 (rkp. Perg. 14)
Kraków, Klastor OO. Karmelitów na Piasku (Carmelite Convent), Ms.3 (rkp. Perg. 15)
Kraków, Klastor OO. Karmelitów na Piasku (Carmelite Convent), Ms.4 (rkp. Perg. 20)
Kraków, Klastor OO. Karmelitów na Piasku (Carmelite Convent), Ms.5 (rkp. Perg. 13)
[rkp. Perg. = Rękopis Pergament; The manuscripts still remaining at the Carmelite
convent in Kraków have been numbered (Ms. 1 - Ms. 5) chronologically, earliest to
latest, by James Boyce. The "rękopis" (Polish for 'manuscript') numbers assigned by
Jerzy Gołos, who ordered the sources by size from largest to smallest, have been
retained in parentheses with the abbreviation "rkp".]
A dedicatory colophon in the Wrocław antiphonary gives the date as 1397 for the completion of the manuscript and names several Carmelite friars responsible for its production, including the scribe named Brother Leo, the prior provincial Brother Henry of Greuenberg, the prior of the Prague convent, Fr. Hartmann of Tachau and several other Carmelites, the most interesting of whom is Brother [presumably Fr.] Procopius, the cantor who directed the choir for forty-six years. (The first part of this inscription has been transcribed in Inwentarz Rękopisów Biblioteki Zakładu Narodowego im. Ossolińskich we Wrocławiu, Tom III, p. 24.)
Contributors to MS Description: JB (08/2006), ed. DL (08/2007, 01/2008).

Notes on the Inventory

The index for PL-WRzno 12025/IV was prepared by James Boyce, O. Carm. (Fordham University) with editorial assistance from Andrew Mitchell (University of Western Ontario).

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