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Title

Processional (Use of the Dominican nuns of Poissy)

Other related names

• Bonhomme, Jules, former owner (https://lccn.loc.gov/n85006415)

Funders

• Council on Library and Information Resources

Call number

MS 51
(Bryn Mawr, United States, Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr College Library)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.brynmawr.edu/library/speccoll/guides/ms51.shtml

Publisher

Bryn Mawr College Library

Language

Latin; Middle French (ca. 1400-1600)

Origin

Place

Poissy, Northern France

Summary

This is a Northern French processional for the use of the Dominican nuns of Poissy from the second half of the fifteenth century. It contains various Latin processional texts with accompanying rubrics and chant notation.

Notes

• There are two physically distinct sections to the manuscript, copied by at least two different scribes, but both very similar in appearance, and certainly contemporary; the first section consists of fols. 1-56, with fol. 56 being a smaller folio tipped in at the end of the quire, blank on the verso, that provides the conclusion to the prayer on fol. 55v (it has glue marks on the verso, which are difficult to account for); and then a second section, fols. 57-end. It is possible that these two sections were even from independent, but contemporary manuscripts, but it seems most likely that the manuscript was copied in two sections (by two different scribes), perhaps working at the same time, and then joined together, explaining the necessity of completing the first section on an inserted folio, and erasing the first two lines at the beginning of the next section on the following folio
   

Extent

Iii+123+iii; 134 x 90 mm bound to 140 x 104 mm

Foliation

Nineteenth-century foliation in ink, upper right recto

Collation

1 (12, +1 +2 +3 +7), 2-5 (8), 6 (12, +8 +9 +10 +12), 7-9 (8), 10 (7, +1), 11-13 (8), 14 (7, +1), 15 (5, +1)

Signatures

Remains of leaf and quire signatures with a letter designating the quire and roman numerals

Support

Parchment

Catchwords

Horizontal catchwords, lower right verso

Binding

Bound in late eighteenth-century morocco over pasteboards, gilt-tooled on spine with floral motifs in compartments, marbled endpapers, edges dyed red; title on spine: "PROCESSIONALE"

Layout

Nineteen lines of text and four lines of square musical notation on four-line red staves, ruled lightly in red ink; written area: 95 x 67 mm

Decoration

Three three- to four-line red and blue initials, capitals touched in yellow, decorative initials within music, small initials in alternate red or blue, rubrics in red

Script

Bâtarde

Provenance

• Written in the fifteenth century for use by a Dominican nun of the royal abbey of St.-Louis at Poissy; belonged to the abbé Jules Bonhomme, curé de Saint-Jean Baptiste de Grenelles, Paris, and chaplain to the Fort de l'Est, Paris, musicologist and author of numerous liturgical studies; his monogram and pencil notes in French on first endleaf, recording that a nineteenth-century pen inscription there, "processional a l'usage des dominicaines du couvert de St-Louis de Pissiaco" was that of the seller he purchased it from; pen inscription on last endleaf, "milieu du 15e," most probably in same hand, accompanied by other booksellers' marks, "no 1222 14" and "Li 24990."; purchased for Bryn Mawr College Library from the Howard Lehman Goodhart Memorial Fund
   

Related resources

• Huglo, M. Les manuscrits du Processional, Volume I, Autriche à Espagne, Répertoire international des sources musicales B XIV (1), Munich, 1999.

Subjects topical

• Poissy (France)

Genres

• Processionals (Liturgical books)

Keywords

• 15th century
• French
• France
• Processional

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Procession for the Purification of the Virgin; incipit: Omnipotens sempiterne deus qui hodierna die vnigenitum tuum . . .; explicit: Erudi quesumus domine plebem …
• fol. 7v — Procession for Palm Sunday; incipit: Omnipotens sempiterne redemptor qui de celis ad terram . . .; explicit: . . . domini nomine amen
• fol. 21r — Holy Thursday Washing of the Altars; incipit: In monte oliueti oravi; explicit: Sed tu domine
• fol. 34v — Gospel Reading after the Mandatum on Holy Thursday; incipit: In illo tempore. Ante diem festum pasche …; explicit: ut dilectio qua dilexisti me in ipsis sit et ego in ipsis
• fol. 46v — Prayers before the Mass; incipit: Summe sacerdos et vere pontifex qui te obtulisti . . .; explicit: Esto nobis pregustatum mortis in examine. O dulcis. O pie. O Fili Marie.
• fol. 57r — Holy Thursday Mandatum; incipit: Dominus ihesus postquam cenauit . . .; explicit: qui vivis et regnas per omnia saecula saeculorum
• fol. 67r — Adoration of the Cross on Holy Friday; incipit: Popule meus . . .; explicit: Sanctus Deus Sanctus
• fol. 70v — Procession for Easter and the Following Days; incipit: Christus resurgens ex mortuis iam non moritur . . .; explicit: Dominum nostrum Ihesum Christum . . .
• fol. 74r — Procession for the Ascension; incipit: Viri galilei . . .; explicit: Qui tecum viuit et regnat per omnia saecula saeculorum amen
• fol. 79r — Procession for Corpus Christi; incipit: Respexit helyas ad caput suum . . .; explicit: Gloria patri et filio et spiritui sancto
• fol. 81v — Procession for the Feast of Saint Dominic; incipit: Granum excussum . . .; explicit: Gloria patri et filio et spiritui sancto
• fol. 82v — Procession for the Assumption; incipit: Felix namque es sacra virgo; explicit: Pulchre gene tue sicut turturis collum tuum sicut monilia
• fol. 87v — Procession for the Reception of Legates; incipit: Ciues apostolorum et domestici; explicit: Domine si conversus fuerit populus tuus et oraverit ad sanctuarium tuum. Exaudi. Gloria in excelso
• fol. 90v — Procession for the Reception of a Secular Prince; incipit: Tua est potentia tuum regnum domine tu es super omnes gentes; explicit: . . . per christum dominum nostrum amen
• fol. 92r — Procession for the Feast of Corpus Christi; incipit: Panis oblatus celitus in altari proponitur; explicit: corpus tuum hodie uenerantem chorum duc soluta scarie ad regnum celorum Alle
• fol. 96v — Procession for the Feast of Saint John the Baptist; incipit: Hic precursor directus et lucerna lucens ante dominum; explicit: cui nomen iohannes erat Qui uiam
• fol. 100v — Procession for the Feast of Saint Dominic; incipit: Panis oblatus celitus fratrum supplet in opiam; explicit: predicator gratie nos junge beatis
• fol. 103v — Procession for the Feast of Saint Louis; incipit: Felix regnum cuius rex; explicit: fruens beatorum tue dono gratie da regnum celorum
• fol. 107v — Procession for the Nativity of the Virgin; incipit: Natiuitats tua dei genitrix uirgo; explicit: vt tibi semper referamus laudes quam dei summi colimus genitricem
• fol. 111v — Chants Accompanying the Profession of a Religious; incipit: Amo cristum in cuius thalamum introivi; explicit: inmensis monilibus ornauit me Quem cum
• fol. 113r — Hymn Sung When One Enters Religious Life; incipit: Ueni creator spiritus mentes tuorum; explicit: Sit laus patri cum filio sancto simul paraclito nobisque mittat carisima sancti spiritus A M E N
• fol. 114r — The Washing of the Altars on Holy Thursday for the Chruch of Saint Louis in Poissy; incipit: Ludouicus deus regnantium; explicit: Inter natos mulierum non surrexit maior iohanne baptista. Fuit homo missus a deo Cui

Decorations

• Flyleaf 1 verso — Note in pencil: "Note du marchant"
• Flyleaf 1 verso — Note in ink: "processional a l'usage des dominicaines du couvent de St-Louis de Pissiaco"
• Flyleaf 1 verso — Note in pencil: "St. Louis de Poissy"
• Flyleaf 2 verso — Bookseller's note in pencil: "no 1222 14"
• Flyleaf 3 recto — Bookseller's note in ink: "Li 24990"
• Flyleaf 3 recto — Bookseller's note in pencil: "TTI 649"
• Flyleaf 3 recto — Bookseller's note in ink: "milieu du 15e"
• fol. 1r — Three-line decorated initial O
• fol. 46v — Puzzle initial S
• Flyleaf 1 verso — Note in pencil: "Note du marchant"
• Flyleaf 1 verso — Note in ink: "processional a l'usage des dominicaines du couvent de St-Louis de Pissiaco"
• Flyleaf 1 verso — Note in pencil: "St. Louis de Poissy"
• Flyleaf 2 verso — Bookseller's note in pencil: "no 1222 14"
• Flyleaf 3 recto — Bookseller's note in ink: "Li 24990"
• Flyleaf 3 recto — Bookseller's note in pencil: "TTI 649"
• Flyleaf 3 recto — Bookseller's note in ink: "milieu du 15e"