Description of University of Pennsylvania Oversize Ms. Codex 2085: Mercedarian gradual. University of Pennsylvania 2023-10-31 2023-10-31 These images and the content of Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts Oversize Ms. Codex 2085: Mercedarian gradual. are free of known copyright restrictions and in the public domain. See the Creative Commons Public Domain Mark page for usage details, http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/. Metadata is ©2023 University of Pennsylvania Libraries and licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License version 4.0 (CC-BY-4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode. For a description of the terms of use see the Creative Commons Deed https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. Ms. codex. Title supplied by cataloger. 3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206 University of Pennsylvania Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts Oversize Ms. Codex 2085 9978152321303681 http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1350439915 http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/366232 Part of a late 17th- or early 18th-century gradual containing chants for the Mass particular to the Mercedarians. Includes propers for the Mass for the Solemnitas Descensionis B.V. Mariae de Mercede (Feast of Our Lady of Mercy), the feast of the patron of the order, and the feast of Saint Raymond Nonnatus, a Mercedarian priest canonized in 1657. One musical passage is a simple example of polyphony, with parts for contralto, tenor, and bass (p. 12). The gradual contains a heading and a couple of notes referring to the Missa Indiana (p. 8, 15, 17), suggesting that these Latin chants were used by the priest in conjunction with vernacular singing by an indigenous congregation, but no indigenous texts are written in the manuscript. Pagination and marginal notes show signs of trimming for rebinding, and the Te Deum at the end (p. 38) is incomplete. Latin with some paraliturgical notes in Catalan Mercedarian gradual. Mercedarians 1 Mercedarian gradual

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 29 leaves : 335 x 245 mm bound to 340 x 250 mm Paper, i + 29 + ii; [1], 2-58, original pagination in ink, modern pagination in pencil, upper outer corners. 7 five-line staves with underlying text. Chant texts written in humanistic script with additional notes in cursive script, by multiple hands.

Later (19th-century?) paper over pasteboard with marbled pastedowns and endleaves and damaged labels on the covers from the business of Tomas Cervera, a stationer in Valencia, Spain.

Written in Spain or New Spain, after 1657 (date of canonization of Raymond Nonnatus, p. 49, 53).

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