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Title

Radnor Missal

Funders

• Council on Library and Information Resources

Call number

MS 34
(Bryn Mawr, United States, Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr College Library)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.brynmawr.edu/library/speccoll/guides/ms34.shtml

Publisher

Bryn Mawr College Library

Language

Latin

Origin

Place

Southern Germany

Summary

This is a German missal from about the fourteenth century, which includes a Cantus; the Blessing of the Paschal Candle with the Litany; the Blessing of the Candle; the Order for the Feast of the Purification of the Blessed Virgin Mary and the Blessing of the Candles; the Order for the Blessing of the Branches on Palm Sunday; and the Blessing of Salt and Water with the Litany.

Extent

32; 274 x 207 mm bound to 275 x 214 mm

Foliation

Modern foliation in pencil in upper right recto

Collation

1 (12, -12), 2 (10), 3 (12, -3)

Support

Parchment

Binding

Original beveled oak boards with dark brown leather covering half the board vertically from the spine forward; spine repaired with more recent leather; metal clasps; bottom leather strap missing

Layout

One or two columns, eighteen to twenty-three lines, ruled in black ink with double and single vertical and single horizontal bounding lines, full length; remains of prickings visible at outer margins; written area: 205 x 147 mm

Decoration

Three three-line initials in blue with red penwork designs marking major text divisions; one- to two-line initials alternating red and blue, some with pen flourishes; rubrication throughout; four-line musical staves with the fa line red and do line yellow; germanic neumes written in the one note basic virga symbol

Provenance

• Written around the fourteenth century, probably in Southern Germany; the three quires very possibly were removed from a larger volume to serve as a liber ritualis for the special occasions listed; the text is devoid of any identifying marks; early provenance unknown; given to Bryn Mawr College by Radnor High School, Radnor, Pennsylvania, 14 November 1984
   

Genres

• Missals

Keywords

• 14th century
• German
• Germany
• Missal
• Liturgy
• Musical notation

Licenses

• Text

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• Text

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Table of contents

• fol. 1v — Cantus
• fol. 2r — Blessing of the Paschal Candle and Litany
• fol. 4v — Blessing of the Candle
• fol. 12v — Order for the Feast of the Purification of the Blessed Virgin Mary and the Blessing of the Candles
• fol. 19v — Order for the Blessing of the Branches on Palm Sunday
• fol. 26r — The Blessing of Salt and Water and Litany

Decorations

• fol. 5r — Three-line blue initial U
• fol. 16r — Three-line blue initial U
• fol. 19v — Manicule
• fol. 22r — Three-line blue initial U
• Inside back cover — Notes in pencil