Collection ID: 0007 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Antiphonal

Other related names

• Traini, Francesco, active 14th century, artist (http://viaf.org/viaf/65352538)

Funders

• Council on Library and Information Resources

Call number

Lehigh Codex 25
(Bethlehem, United States, Lehigh University, Special Collections)

Alternate identifiers

• Accession: 23460
• deRicci: 12
• Hirsh: MS Hirsh 25

Publisher

Special Collections

Language

Latin

Origin

Place

Pisa?, Tuscany, Italy

Summary

This Antiphonal was produced in Tuscany (likely Pisa) in the second quarter of the fourteenth century. It contains material from the Temporale and Sanctorale for Septuagesima and the Pre-Lenten season. It contains three large historiated initials by an artist working in a style close to that of Francesco Traini. The miniatures depict King David playing the psaltery before God (f. 21), the Martyrdom of Saint Agnes (f. 146), and the Martyrdom of Saint Agatha (f. 257).

Notes

• Page 140 has added, pasted-in segment of music in different hand from the rest of the book
   
• Liquid damage to last few leaves
   
• Paper flyleaves
   
• Letter "C" offset visible on insider front cover
   

Extent

I+145+i; 626 x 435 mm bound to 650 x 470 mm

Foliation

Later pagination in ink, arabic numerals, outer margins; 1-182, 185-222, 225-294 (fols. 92, 112 missing)

Collation

1-9 (10), 10 (10, -2), 11 (8), 12 (10, -4), 13-14 (10), 15 (4), 16 (2), 17 (3, +1 +2 +3)

Support

Parchment

Binding

Original fifteenth-century leather over wooden boards with five metal bosses each on front and back cover

Layout

Five four-line staves ruled in red with square notation and text in black; frame-ruled in lead with double vertical bounding lines; written area: 450 x 295 mm

Decoration

Three historiated initials, two lines (two staves plus their underlying text) in height (King David playing the psaltery before Jesus, p. 21; Martyrdom of Saint Agnes, p. 146; Martyrdom of Saint Agatha, p.257); numerous decorated initials one line (one staff plus its underlying text) in height, in orange, yellow, pink, and green with white dots on blue ground, some with acanthus marginal extensions, one at the beginning of each chant, up to three on a page; rubrication in red

Script

Gothic--rotunda

Provenance

• Purchased by Lehigh University (9 September 1881) from Baillieu, Paris
   

Related resources

• De Ricci, Seymour, with the assistance of W. J. Wilson, Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada, vol. 2 (New York,: H. W. Wilson, 1935-40), p. 1991, no. 12.
• Meiss, Millard, "An Illuminated Inferno and Trecento Painting in Pisa" The Art Bulletin 47, no. 1 (1965), p. 30 n. 53, fig. 35 (article pp. 21-34).
• Hirsch, John C., Western Manuscripts of the Twelfth through the Sixteenth Centuries in Lehigh University Libraries: A Guide to the Exhibition (Bethlehem, PA: Rare Book Room, Linderman Library, Lehigh University, 1970), p. 31, no. 25.
• Meiss, Millard, Francesco Traini (Washington, D.C.: Decatur House Press, 1983), p. 71, 78 n. 53, fig. 92.

Keywords

• Antiphonary
• 14th century
• Italian
• Musical notation
• Italy
• Liturgy

Licenses

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Decorations

• 21 — Inhabited initial D, King David before God
• 21 miniature — Inhabited initial D, King David before God
• 146 — Historiated initial D, Martyrdom of Saint Agatha
• 146 miniature — Historiated initial D, Martyrdom of Saint Agatha
• 257 — Historiated initial O, Martyrdom of Saint Agatha; Illuminated initial, Letter A
• 257 miniature — Historiated initial O, Martyrdom of Saint Agatha; Illuminated initial, Letter A