Collection ID: 0031 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Illuminated Choral Manuscript

Other related names

• Bement, Clarence S. (Clarence Sweet), 1843-1923, former owner (http://viaf.org/viaf/37240377)

Funders

• Council on Library and Information Resources

Call number

1883‑53
(Philadelphia, United States, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Department of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs)

Publisher

Department of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs

Language

Latin

Origin

Place

Tuscany?, Italy

Summary

This manuscript is a large Italian antiphonary for the feasts and ferial days from Easter through the end of the liturgical year. The chants are written in square notation on four-line staves and the Latin texts are written in rotunda script, with red and blue initials throughout and large decorated initials in red, blue, and yellow. The first quire (fols. 1-7) contains chants for Epiphany and ends with a catchword that does not correspond to the beginning of the text of the second quire, where the chants for Easter begin. The temporal cycle runs from Easter through the Sundays after Pentecost (fols. 8r-94r). The sanctoral cycle runs from the Feast of the Invention of the Holy Cross (May 3) through the Feast of Saint Clement (November 23), followed by the Common of the Saints (fols. 177v-210v), chants for the dedication of a church (fols. 210v-216r), the Office of the Dead (fols. 216r-220v), and a tonary (fols. 220v-238v). A few more chants were added by later hands (fols. 238v-239v), perhaps including the chants for Trinity Sunday (fols. 240r-247v), although these look very similar to the chants in the body of the manuscript. A marginal note in Italian in a sixteenth- or seventeenth-century hand at the Sunday after Pentecost, which became Trinity Sunday (fol. 49v), refers to the leaves at the end of the volume. The last added chant is to San Galgano, whose cult was active in Siena and Volterra, suggesting origin or early ownership in Tuscany.

Notes

• Remnant of finding tab made from another manuscript leaf (fol. 18v)
   
• Repair with a piece of a Carolingian manuscript leaf (fol. 145v)
   

Extent

246; 515 x 345 mm bound to 540 x 355 mm

Foliation

Later foliation in ink, [1], 2-80, 82-247, upper right recto

Collation

1 (8, -2), 2 (6), 3-10 (8), 11 (10), 12-18 (8), 19 (9, +1), 20 (6), 21-31 (8)

Signatures

Quires 3-10 and 12-30 signed with roman numerals in red ink, lower right last verso; Quires 1 and 11 (fols. 7v, 88v) signed with roman numerals in black ink, lower right last verso; catchword on Quire 1 does not match following leaf (fols. 7v-8r)

Support

Parchment

Catchwords

Horizontal catchwords in ink, framed with simple boxes, lower right last verso

Binding

Full leather; joints splitting at tail, tail of spine missing; nails and impressions left from furnishings

Layout

Nine four-line staves with underlying text; ruled in lead with vertical bounding lines; written area: 367 x 212 mm

Decoration

Approximately thirty-three large puzzle initials in red, blue, and yellow, infilled with intricate penwork; one-line and two-line initials in red flourished with blue or blue flourished with red throughout, sometimes with simple faces in the bows of letters; staves and rubrication in red

Script

Gothic--rotunda

Provenance

• Gift of C. S. Bement, 1883 (Philadelphia; museum bookplate inside upper cover; earlier temporary label, with handwritten data, on housing)
   

Keywords

• 13th century
• 14th century
• Italian
• Musical notation
• Italy
• Liturgy
• Antiphonary
• Puzzle initial

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Epiphany
• fol. 8r — [Temporale, Easter-Ordinary Time]
• fol. 98r — [Sanctorale, May-November]
• fol. 177v — [Common of the Saints]
• fol. 210v — [Dedication of a church]
• fol. 216r — [Office of the Dead]
• fol. 220v — [Tonary]
• fol. 238v — [Later additions]
• fol. 240r — Trinity Sunday

Decorations

• fol. 24v — Decorated initial D
• fol. 26v — Decorated initial S
• fol. 31v — Decorated initial S
• fol. 36r — Decorated initial P
• fol. 42r — Decorated initial D
• fol. 50r — Decorated initial P
• fol. 65v — Decorated initial I
• fol. 70r — Decorated initial S
• fol. 74v — Decorated initial P
• fol. 78r — Decorated initial A
• fol. 80r — Decorated initial D
• fol. 82v — Decorated initial A
• fol. 89r — Decorated initial U
• fol. 94v — Decorated initial B
• fol. 94v — Decorated initial L
• fol. 103r — Decorated initial I
• fol. 103v — Decorated initial F
• fol. 109r — Decorated initial J
• fol. 111r — Decorated initial S
• fol. 115v — Decorated initial Q
• fol. 123v — Decorated initial L
• fol. 130r — Decorated initial U
• fol. 136v — Decorated initial I
• fol. 144r — Decorated initial M
• fol. 147r — Decorated initial H
• fol. 153v — Decorated initial F
• fol. 161r — Decorated initial I
• fol. 166r — Decorated initial H
• fol. 171v — Decorated initial C
• fol. 176r — Decorated initial O
• fol. 178v — Decorated initial E
• fol. 184r — Decorated initial J
• fol. 184v — Decorated initial I
• fol. 189v — Decorated initial A
• fol. 196v — Decorated initial E
• fol. 201v — Decorated initial E
• fol. 206r — Decorated initial U
• fol. 211v — Decorated initial M
• fol. 216r — Decorated initial C
• fol. 241r — Decorated initial B