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This manuscript is a large Italian antiphonary for the feasts and ferial days from Easter through the end of the liturgical year. The chants are written in square notation on four-line staves and the Latin texts are written in rotunda script, with red and blue initials throughout and large decorated initials in red, blue, and yellow. The first quire (fols. 1-7) contains chants for Epiphany and ends with a catchword that does not correspond to the beginning of the text of the second quire, where the chants for Easter begin. The temporal cycle runs from Easter through the Sundays after Pentecost (fols. 8r-94r). The sanctoral cycle runs from the Feast of the Invention of the Holy Cross (May 3) through the Feast of Saint Clement (November 23), followed by the Common of the Saints (fols. 177v-210v), chants for the dedication of a church (fols. 210v-216r), the Office of the Dead (fols. 216r-220v), and a tonary (fols. 220v-238v). A few more chants were added by later hands (fols. 238v-239v), perhaps including the chants for Trinity Sunday (fols. 240r-247v), although these look very similar to the chants in the body of the manuscript. A marginal note in Italian in a sixteenth- or seventeenth-century hand at the Sunday after Pentecost, which became Trinity Sunday (fol. 49v), refers to the leaves at the end of the volume. The last added chant is to San Galgano, whose cult was active in Siena and Volterra, suggesting origin or early ownership in Tuscany.
Support: Parchment; Extent: 246; 515 x 345 mm bound to 540 x 355 mm; Foliation: Later foliation in ink, [1], 2-80, 82-247, upper right recto; Collation: 1 (8, -2), 2 (6), 3-10 (8), 11 (10), 12-18 (8), 19 (9, +1), 20 (6), 21-31 (8); Signatures: Quires 3-10 and 12-30 signed with roman numerals in red ink, lower right last verso; Quires 1 and 11 (fols. 7v, 88v) signed with roman numerals in black ink, lower right last verso; catchword on Quire 1 does not match following leaf (fols. 7v-8r); Catchwords: Horizontal catchwords in ink, framed with simple boxes, lower right last verso
Nine four-line staves with underlying text; ruled in lead with vertical bounding lines; written area: 367 x 212 mm
Gothic--rotunda
Approximately thirty-three large puzzle initials in red, blue, and yellow, infilled with intricate penwork; one-line and two-line initials in red flourished with blue or blue flourished with red throughout, sometimes with simple faces in the bows of letters; staves and rubrication in red
For a full list of Decorations in this manuscript please see the Content and Decorations section by clicking on the [i] button in the top left corner of the image viewer above.
Remnant of finding tab made from another manuscript leaf (fol. 18v)
Repair with a piece of a Carolingian manuscript leaf (fol. 145v)
These are pages that we pulled aside that disrupted the flow of the manuscript reader. These may be bindings, inserts, bookmarks, and various other oddities.
Tuscany?, Italy
Circa 1300
Full leather; joints splitting at tail, tail of spine missing; nails and impressions left from furnishings
Latin
Gift of C. S. Bement, 1883 (Philadelphia; museum bookplate inside upper cover; earlier temporary label, with handwritten data, on housing)
Tuscany?, Italy
Circa 1300
Latin
Gift of C. S. Bement, 1883
This manuscript is a large Italian antiphonary for the feasts and ferial days from Easter through the end of the liturgical year. The chants are written in square notation on four-line staves and the Latin texts are written in rotunda script, with red and blue initials throughout and large decorated initials in red, blue, and yellow. The first quire (fols. 1-7) contains chants for Epiphany and ends with a catchword that does not correspond to the beginning of the text of the second quire, where the chants for Easter begin. The temporal cycle runs from Easter through the Sundays after Pentecost (fols. 8r-94r). The sanctoral cycle runs from the Feast of the Invention of the Holy Cross (May 3) through the Feast of Saint Clement (November 23), followed by the Common of the Saints (fols. 177v-210v), chants for the dedication of a church (fols. 210v-216r), the Office of the Dead (fols. 216r-220v), and a tonary (fols. 220v-238v). A few more chants were added by later hands (fols. 238v-239v), perhaps including the chants for Trinity Sunday (fols. 240r-247v), although these look very similar to the chants in the body of the manuscript. A marginal note in Italian in a sixteenth- or seventeenth-century hand at the Sunday after Pentecost, which became Trinity Sunday (fol. 49v), refers to the leaves at the end of the volume. The last added chant is to San Galgano, whose cult was active in Siena and Volterra, suggesting origin or early ownership in Tuscany.
Remnant of finding tab made from another manuscript leaf (fol. 18v)
Repair with a piece of a Carolingian manuscript leaf (fol. 145v)
Gothic--rotunda
Approximately thirty-three large puzzle initials in red, blue, and yellow, infilled with intricate penwork; one-line and two-line initials in red flourished with blue or blue flourished with red throughout, sometimes with simple faces in the bows of letters; staves and rubrication in red
For a full list of Decorations in this manuscript please see the Content and Decorations section by clicking on the [i] button in the top left corner of the image viewer above.
These are pages that we pulled aside that disrupted the flow of the manuscript reader. These may be bindings, inserts, bookmarks, and various other oddities.
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