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Title

Sequentiary (Prosar) for Dominican Use

Other related names

• Prieuré Saint-Louis (Poissy), former owner (http://viaf.org/viaf/2207145857017222920905)

Funders

• Council on Library and Information Resources

Call number

MS 54
(Bryn Mawr, United States, Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr College Library)

Publisher

Bryn Mawr College Library

Language

Latin; French

Origin

Place

Poissy?, France

Summary

This manuscript is a Sequentiary (Prosar) for Dominican Use from the late fifteenth or early sixteenth century, probably copied in the royal convent of Saint-Louis in Poissy, France. It contains texts and musical notation for sequences, chants sung at the Mass between the Alleluia and the reading of the Gospels. The chants are arranged to follow the Temporal (fols. 1r-30r) and Sanctoral (fols. 30r-133v) cycles, with additional chants and prayers at the end of the volume, with feminine forms used in two of the prayers (fols. 172r, 175r). The latest canonization reflected in the Sanctoral cycle is Catherine of Siena, canonized in 1461 (fols. 57r-59v); Antoninus of Florence, canonized in 1524, is not included. The Sanctoral cycle also includes sequences for the Dominican saints Dominic, Peter Martyr, and Thomas Aquinas, and two sequences for Saint Louis, founder of Poissy. A few interlinear translations and marginal notations in French have been added by later hands (fols. 87r-91r, 94r, 95v).

Extent

181+i; 173 x 114 mm bound to 180 x 125 mm

Foliation

Modern foliation in pencil, 1-181, upper right recto

Collation

1 (10, -1 -2), 2-21 (8), 22 (6), 23 (8, -8)

Signatures

Some signatures visible with letter designating the quire and tally marks for the leaf

Support

Parchment

Catchwords

Horizontal catchwords in ink, lower right last verso, visible or partially visible in quires 1-4, 7, 9, 12, (fol. 8v, 16v, 24v, 32v, 56v, 72v, 96v)

Binding

Modern (?) orange rough suede binding over wooden boards cut flush with the book block (possibly original boards); spine with five slightly raised bands, edges gilt and possibly gauffered

Layout

One column of five lines of text and five four-line red staves with square musical notation (fols. 1r-171r) or one column of seventeen to nineteen lines (fols. 171v-181r), frame-ruled in lead with widely spaced horizontal rules for the text; prickings top and bottom margins, a few folios with prickings in the outer margins; written area : 105 x 60 mm (fols. 1r-171r), 105 x 65 mm (fols. 171v-181r)

Decoration

Opening initial of each chant height of text line plus staff, generally alternating between red and blue, except for the first, a puzzle initial in red and blue (fol. 1r); one-line alternating red and blue initials within chant texts; two- and one-line alternating red and blue initials and majuscules touched in pale yellow in prayers (fols. 171v-181r); guide letters within initials; rubrication in red

Script

Gothic--textualis

Provenance

• Royal abbey of St.-Louis at Poissy; ownership inscription, possibly seventeenth-century, of a sous-prieure (sub-prioress, inside front cover)
   

Subjects topical

• Poissy (France)

Genres

• Processionals (Liturgical books)

Keywords

• 15th century
• 16th century
• French
• Musical notation
• Puzzle initial
• France
• Liturgy

Licenses

• Text

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  URL

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — [Noted sequences for the Temporale beginning with Advent]
• fol. 30r — [Noted sequences for the Sanctorale]
• fol. 133v — [Twelve noted sequences for feasts of the Virgin Mary]
• fol. 164v — De beata elysabeth; incipit: Gaude syon quod egressus
• fol. 168v — [Noted sequence for Saint Ursula]; incipit: Agnum sponsum virginum regem regum dominum
• fol. 171r — [Hymn for Pentecost at Vespers and Terce and prayers]; incipit: Veni creator spritus mentes tuorum
• fol. 172r — [Prayers]

Decorations

• Inside front cover — Early (seventeenth century?) inscription
• fol. 1r — Puzzle initial U
• fol. 3v — Colored initial L
• fol. 5v — Colored initial U
• fol. 7r — Colored initial O
• fol. 10r — Colored initial S
• fol. 13v — Colored initial U
• fol. 15r — Colored initial P
• fol. 19r — Colored initial L
• fol. 25v — Colored initial R
• fol. 30r — Colored initial A
• fol. 34r — Colored initial F
• fol. 37v — Colored initial C
• fol. 42r — Colored initial T
• fol. 44r — Colored initial A
• fol. 48r — Colored initial T
• fol. 54r — Colored initial A
• fol. 57r — Colored initial O
• fol. 59v — Colored initial F
• fol. 62r — Colored initial S
• fol. 63v — Colored initial i
• fol. 68r — Colored initial P
• fol. 73r — Colored initial i
• fol. 76v — Colored initial C
• fol. 80r — Colored initial M
• fol. 85v — Colored initial M
• fol. 89r — Colored initial F
• fol. 92r — Colored initial S
• fol. 95r — Colored initial R
• fol. 97v — Colored initial i
• fol. 98v — Colored initial P
• fol. 102v — Colored initial D
• fol. 106r — Colored initial N
• fol. 109r — Colored initial O
• fol. 111r — Colored initial L
• fol. 115r — Colored initial E
• fol. 117r — Colored initial S
• fol. 121r — Colored initial G
• fol. 124v — Colored initial G
• fol. 127v — Colored initial E
• fol. 131r — Colored initial A
• fol. 133v — Colored initial U
• fol. 135v — Colored initial U
• fol. 137r — Colored initial H
• fol. 139r — Colored initial A
• fol. 142r — Colored initial i
• fol. 145v — Colored initial T
• fol. 147v — Colored initial S
• fol. 150v — Colored initial A
• fol. 152v — Colored initial M
• fol. 154v — Colored initial S
• fol. 157r — Colored initial A
• fol. 159r — Colored initial A
• fol. 162v — Colored initial S
• fol. 164v — Colored initial G
• fol. 166v — Colored initial R
• fol. 168v — Colored initial A
• fol. 171r — Colored initial U
• fol. 172r — Colored initials D, P, A
• fol. 172v — Colored initial C
• fol. 173r — Colored initial D
• fol. 174r — Colored initial A
• fol. 174v — Colored initial N
• fol. 175v — Colored initial O
• fol. 179r — Colored initial D