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This manuscript is an antiphonary written in Italy in the fifteenth century. It includes chants for the major feasts of the liturgical year, from Advent through Corpus Christi. The chants are written in square notation on four-line staves. The chant texts are in rotunda script, written by multiple hands, with simple initials and rubrication in red. Additional chants have been added at the end by later hands (fols. 404v-410v). The early modern signature of Suor Maria Verginia (fol. 182v) suggests that the manuscript was at some point held by a women's religious community.
Support: Paper; Extent: iii+410+i; 135 x 90 mm bound to 145 x 105 mm; Collation: 1 (8), 2-3 (10), 4 (14), 5-18 (10), 19 (8), 20-24 (10), 25 (8), 26 (10), 27 (12, +8 +9), 28-37 (10), 38 (10, -10), 39-40 (10), 41 (11, +11); Signatures: Quires 2-41 signed 2-41, lower right first recto, by a later hand, possibly nineteenth-century
Four four-line staves with text; ruled in faint ink
Gothic--rotunda
Chants begin with slightly larger red majuscule letter with the second letter touched with yellow and flourished with simple penwork; rubricated in red, decorative patterns of non-musical square notes at the end of many chants
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.
Italy
15th century
Early parchment over pasteboard with remnants of two ties; late nineteenth- or early twentieth-century repair to spine
Latin
Suor Maria Verginia (inscription, 17th century?, fol. 182v); purchased by Charles G. Leland in 1899 in Florence from an itinerant dealer; gift of H. Norris Harrison and John Harrison
Italy
15th century
Latin
Suor Maria Verginia
This manuscript is an antiphonary written in Italy in the fifteenth century. It includes chants for the major feasts of the liturgical year, from Advent through Corpus Christi. The chants are written in square notation on four-line staves. The chant texts are in rotunda script, written by multiple hands, with simple initials and rubrication in red. Additional chants have been added at the end by later hands (fols. 404v-410v). The early modern signature of Suor Maria Verginia (fol. 182v) suggests that the manuscript was at some point held by a women's religious community.
Gothic--rotunda
Chants begin with slightly larger red majuscule letter with the second letter touched with yellow and flourished with simple penwork; rubricated in red, decorative patterns of non-musical square notes at the end of many chants
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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