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

Title

Antiphonarium

Other related names

• Leland, Charles Godfrey, 1824-1903, former owner (http://viaf.org/viaf/24729304)
• H. Norris Harrison, former owner
• John Harrison, Jr., former owner

Funders

• Council on Library and Information Resources

Call number

1933‑36‑1
(Philadelphia, United States, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Department of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs)

Publisher

Department of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs

Language

Latin

Origin

Place

Italy

Summary

This manuscript is an antiphonary written in Italy in the fifteenth century. It includes chants for the major feasts of the liturgical year, from Advent through Corpus Christi. The chants are written in square notation on four-line staves. The chant texts are in rotunda script, written by multiple hands, with simple initials and rubrication in red. Additional chants have been added at the end by later hands (fols. 404v-410v). The early modern signature of Suor Maria Verginia (fol. 182v) suggests that the manuscript was at some point held by a women's religious community.

Extent

Iii+410+i; 135 x 90 mm bound to 145 x 105 mm

Collation

1 (8), 2-3 (10), 4 (14), 5-18 (10), 19 (8), 20-24 (10), 25 (8), 26 (10), 27 (12, +8 +9), 28-37 (10), 38 (10, -10), 39-40 (10), 41 (11, +11)

Signatures

Quires 2-41 signed 2-41, lower right first recto, by a later hand, possibly nineteenth-century

Support

Paper

Binding

Early parchment over pasteboard with remnants of two ties; late nineteenth- or early twentieth-century repair to spine

Layout

Four four-line staves with text; ruled in faint ink

Decoration

Chants begin with slightly larger red majuscule letter with the second letter touched with yellow and flourished with simple penwork; rubricated in red, decorative patterns of non-musical square notes at the end of many chants

Script

Gothic--rotunda

Provenance

• Suor Maria Verginia (inscription, 17th century?, fol. 182v); purchased by Charles G. Leland in 1899 in Florence from an itinerant dealer; gift of H. Norris Harrison and John Harrison
   

Keywords

• Antiphonary
• 15th century
• Italian
• Gothic
• Musical notation
• Italy
• Liturgy

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Antiphonarium