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Title

Chant book

Authors

• Catholic Church

Call number

Ms. Codex 758
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9927045503503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/63643673
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/2704550

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Latin

Origin

Date

14--?

Summary

Plainsong chants in Gregorian notation with other liturgical texts.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   

Extent

64 leaves : 168 x 108 mm. bound to 184 x 125 mm

Foliation

Parchment; 64; [1-64]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.

Support

Parchment

Binding

Contemporary leather over wooden boards, clasp intact; leather flaking away, particularly along spine.

Layout

Music is square notation on a five line staff, (f. 1-59r); square notation on a four line staff in two additional hands, (f. 60v-64v).

Decoration

Red used for initials, capital strokes, and staff.

Script

Written in a formal Gothic book script by several hands.

Subjects topical

• Catholic Church--Liturgy--Texts
• Gregorian chants--Manuscripts

Genres

• Codices
• Gregorian chant
• Manuscripts, Latin--15th century
• Manuscripts, Medieval
• Manuscripts, Renaissance

Keywords

• 15th century
• Christian

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Palm Sunday procession, f. 1r
• fol. 9v — Maundy Thursday chants, f. 9v
• fol. 28r — Good Friday chants, f. 28r
• fol. 32r — Regina coeli antiphon, f. 32r
• fol. 33r — Ascension chants, f. 33r
• fol. 36v — Marian antiphons, f. 36v
• fol. 45r — Chants for the Dead, f. 45r
• fol. 49r — Psalms for the Dead, f. 49r

Decorations

• Inside front cover — Later musical notation, Inside front cover
• fol. 63v — Later musical notation, f. 63v
• fol. 64v — Later musical notation, f. 64v