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This manuscript is a fourteenth-century Dominican Gradual most likely from Poissy, France, in an unusual small and portable format. Following the Temporal, Sanctoral (which includes Thomas Aquinas [fol. 210v], Peter Martyr [fol. 215r], the Translation of Saint Dominic [fol. 219v], Dominic [fol. 229v], and Louis [fol. 234v]), and Common of saints, there are chants for other masses, including votive masses for the Holy Spirit and Holy Cross, seasonal offices in honor of the Virgin, the ordinary of mass for each rank of feast, and a funeral mass. These are followed by sequences for major feasts, and at the end of the volume additional sequences have been added by multiple hands, including chants for Saints Ambrose Sansdon and Raymond of Peñafort, both of the Dominican order, and Saint Louis. Historiated initials with bar borders and ivy leaves mark major divisions of the manuscript as well as certain feasts. Seventeen historiated initials introduce selected masses and major divisions in the book.
Support: Parchment; Extent: iii+364+iii; 168 x 115 mm bound to 174 x 133 mm; Foliation: Early foliation in ink, Roman numerals, upper right recto through fol. 189, thereafter modern foliation in pencil, Arabic numerals, upper right recto, one unfoliated leaf after fol. 348; Collation: 1-24 (8), 25 (4), 26-45 (8), 46 (3, +1), 47 (6, +1 +2 +3 +4 +5); Signatures: Contemporary, red Roman numerals, lower right verso, to the left of catchwords, consistent throughout; Catchwords: Contemporary horizontal, lower right verso, to the right of signatures, consistent throughout
One column of seven four-line staves ruled in red, with Gregorian musical notation in black and underlying text in black and red; frame-ruled in faint ink with double vertical bounding lines; written area: 120 x 84 mm
Gothic--textualis
Seventeen historiated initials with additional grotesque or floral ornamentation in color and gold, following the style of Jean Pucelle
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.
Gathering 46 misbound, correct folio order is 354, 357, 356, 355
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.
Poissy, France
Made for a Dominican house, likely Poissy (see Naughton 1995 and Naughton 1998); second quarter 14th century
Nineteenth-century straight grain red Morocco leather; binder name "Koehler" stamped on spine, and note on verso of third front flyleaf; Jansenist style with silver clasps; stamped on spine "PRECES PIE, MS NOTE"; green twentieth-century slipcase with "GRADUALE MISSARUM, FRANCE CIRCA 1400" stamped on spine
Latin
At some time belonged to an owner with initials E.D.; Constant Leber, by 1852 (handwritten description on recto of second front flyleaf identical to description in Leber print catalogue); Joseph Renard (bookplate inside front cover); William Loring Andrews (bookplate and pencil inscription inside front cover); Cortlandt Bishop, Bishop Library (no. 1776, sale 1938); Philip S. Collins (bookplate, front flyleaf, no. 24); gift of Mary Schell Collins in memory of her husband, 1945
Poissy, France
Made for a Dominican house, likely Poissy (see Naughton 1995 and Naughton 1998); second quarter 14th century
Latin
At some time belonged to an owner with initials E.D.; Constant Leber, by 1852
This manuscript is a fourteenth-century Dominican Gradual most likely from Poissy, France, in an unusual small and portable format. Following the Temporal, Sanctoral (which includes Thomas Aquinas [fol. 210v], Peter Martyr [fol. 215r], the Translation of Saint Dominic [fol. 219v], Dominic [fol. 229v], and Louis [fol. 234v]), and Common of saints, there are chants for other masses, including votive masses for the Holy Spirit and Holy Cross, seasonal offices in honor of the Virgin, the ordinary of mass for each rank of feast, and a funeral mass. These are followed by sequences for major feasts, and at the end of the volume additional sequences have been added by multiple hands, including chants for Saints Ambrose Sansdon and Raymond of Peñafort, both of the Dominican order, and Saint Louis. Historiated initials with bar borders and ivy leaves mark major divisions of the manuscript as well as certain feasts. Seventeen historiated initials introduce selected masses and major divisions in the book.
Gathering 46 misbound, correct folio order is 354, 357, 356, 355
Gothic--textualis
Seventeen historiated initials with additional grotesque or floral ornamentation in color and gold, following the style of Jean Pucelle
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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