Beinecke MS 466               Spain, s. XVI^^2, XVII
Cordoba, Cathedral:  Estaciones del mes de Noviembre (in Sp. and Lat.)

1.  ff. 1r-18r  Record of those for whom memorial prayers were to be said
during November, divided into 6 estaciones, with a total of 501
memoriae.  The place where the prayer is to be said is often given; from
those mentioned, the church in question can be identified as the Cathedral
of Cordoba
(e.g. Arco del corral de los naranjos, f. 2v; Capilla de Sancta Ynes, f. 7r).
Included by the original hand on f. 17v, in red, is a Memoria De don leo
poldo [sic] de austria obispo de Cordoua hijo del emperador maximiliano en
su sepultura e[n erased] medio del cruzero nueuo, murio anno domini
1557. [Bp. Leopold of Cordoba, d. 1557, buried in the transept of the
16th-century part of the Cathedral].  Memoriae added in nearly contemporary
hand, f. 18r, for Francisco de Reynoso, Bp. of Cordoba (d. 1601) and Juan de
San Clemente, Abp. of Santiago de Compostela (d. 1603).  Memoriae added for
Don Diego de Mardones, Bp. of Cordoba (d. 1625) in humanistic script, on ff.
3r, 6v, 9r, 12r, 15r and 18v-19r.  ff. 3v-4r, 9v, 12v-13r, 15v-16r and 19v have
ink frames, but are blank

2.  ff. 20r-21v  [Prayers for the Dead:]  Pro episcopo defuncto.  Oratio.
Deus qui inter apostolicos sacerdotes famulum tuum...; f. 20r Pro sacerdote
defuncto.  Oratio.  Beati petri apostoli tui, quesumus domine, intercessione
nos protege...; f. 20r Pro uno quocumque defuncto.  Oratio.  Inclina domine
aurem tuam ad preces nostras...[HE 101]; f. 20r Alia. Oratio.  Absolue,
quesumus domine, animam famuli tui...[HE 113]; f. 20v Alia. Oratio.  Annue
nobis, domine, ut anima famuli tui...; f. 20v Pro una defuncta. Oratio.
Quesumus domine pro tua pietate miserere anime famule tue...[HE 113]; f. 20v
Alia. Oratio.  Inueniat quesumus domine anima famule tue lucis...; f. 20v
Pro parentibus. Oratio.  Deus, qui nos patrem, et matrem honorare
precepisti...[HE 111]; f. 20v Pro benefactoribus.  Oratio.  Deus venie
largitor, et humane salutis amator...[HE 111]; f. 21r Oratio.  Deus cuius
miseratione anime fidelium requiescunt...[Sinclair p. 83]; f. 21r Pro quibus
sit anniuersarium.  Oratio.  Deus indulgentiarum domine, da animabus...; f.
21v Pro omnibus defunctis.  Oratio.  Fidelium deus omnium conditor et
redemptor animabus...[HE 101]; f. 21v Alia. Oratio.  Animabus, quesumus
domine, famulorum famularumque tuarum oratio proficiat...[HE 111]; f. 21v
Pro pluribus mulieribus.  Oratio.  Quesumus domine pro tua pietate
miserere animabus famularum tuarum...restitue [cf. HE 113].  Per christum
dominum nostrum.

     Parchment (thick, stiff), ff. 21, 252 x 196 (228 x 150) mm.  Written in 34
long lines in art. 1, 21 long lines in art. 2.  In art. 1, ruling in hard
point marks columns for paragraph marks and the rubric Mem[oriae]
before each name; ruling also in hard point for text; frames in pale violet ink
for written space.  In art. 2, ruling in hard point for text, with lines
drawn in ink halfway between lines of text.
     I^^8 (+ 2 leaves, ff. 3, 9, later additions), II^^8 (+3 leaves, 2, 5, and 8,
later additions).
     Written by a single scribe in rotunda, very well executed, with additions at
end of estaciones in rotunda and humanistic script, by later hands.
     Initials, ff. 20r-21v (2-line), in alternating red with purple penwork and
blue with red penwork.  1-line capitals sometimes have yellow wash.  Rubrics
in orange-tinted red, paragraph marks in blue.  Added memoriae for Don Diego
de Mardones have elaborate penwork cadeaux at the beginning.
     Offset impression of red lines (from pastedowns or flyleaves now lost?)
appear on ff. 1r (running vertically) and 21v (horizontally); no loss of text.
     Binding:  s. xvi.  Resewn on three small, vegetable fiber supports laced into
wooden boards.  The spine is square and lined with vellum between the supports.
Covered in tan sheepskin blind-tooled with a floral roll border and arabesques
in the center.  A paper label on the upper cover:  "Noviembre."  Rebacked.

Written at or for the Cathedral of Cordoba in the second half of the 16th
century (after 1557; see art. 1).  Still at the Cathedral in 1625, when
memoriae for Don Diego de Mardones were added.  Collection of Charles
Dudley Armstrong (bookplate); his gift to Yale in 1951.

Barbara A. Shailor