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Title

Liturgical miscellany

Authors

• Catholic Church

Call number

Ms. Codex 1248
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206, University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9943817163503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/244302160
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/366278 http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/4381716 https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3nz80q3f

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Latin

Origin

Date

between 1450 and 1499

Place

Italy

Summary

Miniature manuscript of music and prayers from a monastic context. The manuscript has a pedagogical slant, beginning with the seven tones and some of the ordinary chants (Kyrie, Gloria, Ite missa est) written out repeatedly in different tones. It ends with a diagram of a Guidonian hand, a tool attributed to the 11th-century musical theorist Guido d'Arezzo and used in the 12th through 16th centuries for teaching sight-singing, and a ladder diagram of the gamut. Most of the content of the manuscript consists of brief chants for the liturgical cycle, with more extensive chants for Holy Week, including part of the Lamentations of Jeremiah (f. 54v-58r), and for the Office of and Mass for the Dead (Officium defunctorum, Missa pro defunctoris). The only antiphons indicated from the sanctoral cycle are for the Finding of the Holy Cross (May 3, f. 30r) and the Apparition of Saint Michael (May 8, f. 30v). Beginning of musical notation (primus tonus, secundus tonus) now lacking, perhaps 1-2 leaves; a catchword on the last leaf of musical notation suggests that at least one more gathering is missing between the last two. The musical notation is followed by prayers to Saint Michael, Saint Helena, and Saint Katherine of Alexandria, and a number of prayers for the death and burial of different categories of people, including priests, parents, and members of the order, with brief rubrics.

Notes

• Title supplied by cataloger.
   
• Ms. codex.
   
• 5. f.112r-121v: [Prayers for the dead]
   
• 6. f.122r: [Guidonian hand]
   
• 4. f.111r-111v: [Suffrages]
   
• 3. f.85v-110v: [Chants for the dead]
   
• 1. f.1r-18v: [Tones 3-7 and ordinary chants]
   
• 2. f.18v-85r: [Chants for the liturgical cycle]
   

Extent

123 leaves : 82 x 60 (chant 68 x 42, text 55 x 40) mm bound to 88 x 70 mm

Collation

Parchment, 123; 1⁶ 2-14⁸ 15¹³ (+1); leaves 2-7 of the last gathering signed a2-a7; catchwords on last verso of gatherings 2-14, lower center; modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto.

Support

Parchment

Binding

Early binding of brown leather over thin wooden boards, tooled with floral panels, leaves and symbols surrounding a Madonna and Child above a winged face, more easily seen on lower cover; remnants of a clasp; head and tail of spine now exposed (Sotheby's).

Layout

Musical notation written on four 4-line staves in red ink with accompanying text; text (f. 111r-121v) written in 18 long lines; text ruled in drypoint with vertical bounding lines in faint ink or lead.

Decoration

Illustration in brown ink with details in red and blue ink of Guidonian hand with filigree cuff (f. 122r); ladder diagram of the gamut on a red 12-line staff and John 1.1-12 written in red ink and surrounded by a round penwork frame in blue ink (f. 122v); rubrics in red, initial letters touched in yellow with simple penwork tracery, 1- or 2-line initials alternating in red and blue throughout.

Script

Written in the Italian bookhand of Frater Johannes de plebe (f. 121v).

Provenance

• Sold at auction at Sotheby's, 8 July 2008, lot 24.
   

Subjects topical

• Guido,--d'Arezzo
• Catholic Church--Liturgy--Texts
• Tonarius
• Singing--Instruction and study--Early works to 1800
• Gregorian chants--Manuscripts

Genres

• codices (bound manuscripts)
• choirbooks
• Gregorian chants
• Manuscripts, Latin--15th century
• Manuscripts, Renaissance

Keywords

• 15th century
• Song book
• Liturgy

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Tones 3-7 and ordinary chants, f. 1r
• fol. 18v — Chants for the liturgical cycle, f. 18v
• fol. 85v — Chants for the dead, f. 85v
• fol. 111r — Suffrages, f. 111r
• fol. 112r — Prayers for the dead, f. 112r
• fol. 122r — Guidonian hand, f. 122r
• fol. 122v — John 1.1-12, f. 122v

Decorations

• fol. 1r — Decorated initial, Initial T, f. 1r
• fol. 1v — Decorated initial, Initial Q, f. 1v
• fol. 3r — Decorated initial, Initial S, f. 3r
• fol. 122r — Illustration, Guidonian hand, f. 122r
• fol. 122v — Penwork frame, f. 122v