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This is a Northern French processional for the use of the Dominican nuns of Poissy from the second half of the fifteenth century. It contains various Latin processional texts with accompanying rubrics and chant notation.
Support: Parchment; Extent: iii+123+iii; 134 x 90 mm bound to 140 x 104 mm; Foliation: Nineteenth-century foliation in ink, upper right recto; Collation: 1 (12, +1 +2 +3 +7), 2-5 (8), 6 (12, +8 +9 +10 +12), 7-9 (8), 10 (7, +1), 11-13 (8), 14 (7, +1), 15 (5, +1); Signatures: Remains of leaf and quire signatures with a letter designating the quire and roman numerals; Catchwords: Horizontal catchwords, lower right verso
Nineteen lines of text and four lines of square musical notation on four-line red staves, ruled lightly in red ink; written area: 95 x 67 mm
Bâtarde
Three three- to four-line red and blue initials, capitals touched in yellow, decorative initials within music, small initials in alternate red or blue, rubrics 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.
There are two physically distinct sections to the manuscript, copied by at least two different scribes, but both very similar in appearance, and certainly contemporary; the first section consists of fols. 1-56, with fol. 56 being a smaller folio tipped in at the end of the quire, blank on the verso, that provides the conclusion to the prayer on fol. 55v (it has glue marks on the verso, which are difficult to account for); and then a second section, fols. 57-end. It is possible that these two sections were even from independent, but contemporary manuscripts, but it seems most likely that the manuscript was copied in two sections (by two different scribes), perhaps working at the same time, and then joined together, explaining the necessity of completing the first section on an inserted folio, and erasing the first two lines at the beginning of the next section on the following folio
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, Northern France
Second half 15th century
Bound in late eighteenth-century morocco over pasteboards, gilt-tooled on spine with floral motifs in compartments, marbled endpapers, edges dyed red; title on spine: "PROCESSIONALE"
Latin; Middle French (ca. 1400-1600)
Written in the fifteenth century for use by a Dominican nun of the royal abbey of St.-Louis at Poissy; belonged to the abbé Jules Bonhomme, curé de Saint-Jean Baptiste de Grenelles, Paris, and chaplain to the Fort de l'Est, Paris, musicologist and author of numerous liturgical studies; his monogram and pencil notes in French on first endleaf, recording that a nineteenth-century pen inscription there, "processional a l'usage des dominicaines du couvert de St-Louis de Pissiaco" was that of the seller he purchased it from; pen inscription on last endleaf, "milieu du 15e," most probably in same hand, accompanied by other booksellers' marks, "no 1222 14" and "Li 24990."; purchased for Bryn Mawr College Library from the Howard Lehman Goodhart Memorial Fund
Poissy, Northern France
Second half 15th century
Latin; Middle French (ca. 1400-1600)
Written in the fifteenth century for use by a Dominican nun of the royal abbey of St.-Louis at Poissy; belonged to the abbé Jules Bonhomme, curé de Saint-Jean Baptiste de Grenelles, Paris, and chaplain to the Fort de l'Est, Paris, musicologist and author of numerous liturgical studies; his monogram and pencil notes in French on first endleaf, recording that a nineteenth-century pen inscription there, "processional a l'usage des dominicaines du couvert de St-Louis de Pissiaco" was that of the seller he purchased it from; pen inscription on last endleaf, "milieu du 15e," most probably in same hand, accompanied by other booksellers' marks, "no 1222 14" and "Li 24990."; purchased for Bryn Mawr College Library from the Howard Lehman Goodhart Memorial Fund
This is a Northern French processional for the use of the Dominican nuns of Poissy from the second half of the fifteenth century. It contains various Latin processional texts with accompanying rubrics and chant notation.
There are two physically distinct sections to the manuscript, copied by at least two different scribes, but both very similar in appearance, and certainly contemporary; the first section consists of fols. 1-56, with fol. 56 being a smaller folio tipped in at the end of the quire, blank on the verso, that provides the conclusion to the prayer on fol. 55v (it has glue marks on the verso, which are difficult to account for); and then a second section, fols. 57-end. It is possible that these two sections were even from independent, but contemporary manuscripts, but it seems most likely that the manuscript was copied in two sections (by two different scribes), perhaps working at the same time, and then joined together, explaining the necessity of completing the first section on an inserted folio, and erasing the first two lines at the beginning of the next section on the following folio
Bâtarde
Three three- to four-line red and blue initials, capitals touched in yellow, decorative initials within music, small initials in alternate red or blue, rubrics 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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