Description of Department of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs, 1883‑53: Illuminated Choral Manuscript contributor Ryan McNally cataloger Amey Hutchins Council on Library and Information Resources Department of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs These images and the content of Department of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs 1883‑53: Illuminated Choral Manuscript 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/. To the extent possible under law, Philadelphia Museum of Art has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to this metadata about Department of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs 1883‑53: Illuminated Choral Manuscript. This work is published from: United States. For a summary of CC0, see https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/. Legal code: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode. Remnant of finding tab made from another manuscript leaf (fol. 18v) Repair with a piece of a Carolingian manuscript leaf (fol. 145v) United States Philadelphia Philadelphia Museum of Art Department of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs 1883‑53 This manuscript is a large Italian antiphonary for the feasts and ferial days from Easter through the end of the liturgical year. The chants are written in square notation on four-line staves and the Latin texts are written in rotunda script, with red and blue initials throughout and large decorated initials in red, blue, and yellow. The first quire (fols. 1-7) contains chants for Epiphany and ends with a catchword that does not correspond to the beginning of the text of the second quire, where the chants for Easter begin. The temporal cycle runs from Easter through the Sundays after Pentecost (fols. 8r-94r). The sanctoral cycle runs from the Feast of the Invention of the Holy Cross (May 3) through the Feast of Saint Clement (November 23), followed by the Common of the Saints (fols. 177v-210v), chants for the dedication of a church (fols. 210v-216r), the Office of the Dead (fols. 216r-220v), and a tonary (fols. 220v-238v). A few more chants were added by later hands (fols. 238v-239v), perhaps including the chants for Trinity Sunday (fols. 240r-247v), although these look very similar to the chants in the body of the manuscript. A marginal note in Italian in a sixteenth- or seventeenth-century hand at the Sunday after Pentecost, which became Trinity Sunday (fol. 49v), refers to the leaves at the end of the volume. The last added chant is to San Galgano, whose cult was active in Siena and Volterra, suggesting origin or early ownership in Tuscany. Latin Illuminated Choral Manuscript former owner Bement, Clarence S. (Clarence Sweet), 1843-1923 1r Epiphany 8r [Temporale, Easter-Ordinary Time] 98r [Sanctorale, May-November] 177v [Common of the Saints] 210v [Dedication of a church] 216r [Office of the Dead] 220v [Tonary] 238v [Later additions] 240r Trinity Sunday

Parchment

 246; 515 x 345 mm bound to 540 x 355 mm Later foliation in ink, [1], 2-80, 82-247, upper right recto

1 (8, -2), 2 (6), 3-10 (8), 11 (10), 12-18 (8), 19 (9, +1), 20 (6), 21-31 (8)

Quires 3-10 and 12-30 signed with roman numerals in red ink, lower right last verso; Quires 1 and 11 (fols. 7v, 88v) signed with roman numerals in black ink, lower right last verso; catchword on Quire 1 does not match following leaf (fols. 7v-8r)

Horizontal catchwords in ink, framed with simple boxes, lower right last verso

Nine four-line staves with underlying text; ruled in lead with vertical bounding lines; written area: 367 x 212 mm Gothic--rotunda Approximately thirty-three large puzzle initials in red, blue, and yellow, infilled with intricate penwork; one-line and two-line initials in red flourished with blue or blue flourished with red throughout, sometimes with simple faces in the bows of letters; staves and rubrication in red 24vDecorated initial D 26vDecorated initial S 31vDecorated initial S 36rDecorated initial P 42rDecorated initial D 50rDecorated initial P 65vDecorated initial I 70rDecorated initial S 74vDecorated initial P 78rDecorated initial A 80rDecorated initial D 82vDecorated initial A 89rDecorated initial U 94vDecorated initial B 94vDecorated initial L 103rDecorated initial I 103vDecorated initial F 109rDecorated initial J 111rDecorated initial S 115vDecorated initial Q 123vDecorated initial L 130rDecorated initial U 136vDecorated initial I 144rDecorated initial M 147rDecorated initial H 153vDecorated initial F 161rDecorated initial I 166rDecorated initial H 171vDecorated initial C 176rDecorated initial O 178vDecorated initial E 184rDecorated initial J 184vDecorated initial I 189vDecorated initial A 196vDecorated initial E 201vDecorated initial E 206rDecorated initial U 211vDecorated initial M 216rDecorated initial C 241rDecorated initial B

Full leather; joints splitting at tail, tail of spine missing; nails and impressions left from furnishings

Circa 1300

Tuscany?, Italy Gift of C. S. Bement, 1883 (Philadelphia; museum bookplate inside upper cover; earlier temporary label, with handwritten data, on housing) Book Type Accounts Antiphonary Armorial Bible Biography Book of Hours Breviary Chronicle Collection of Sermons Commentary Dictionary Document Dogale Friendship book Genealogy Glossary Gospel Lectionary Gospels Gradual Haggadah Homilary Horologion Hymnal Koran Lectionary Mass book Miscellany Missal Pontifical Portolan chart Prayer book Private devotional text Processional Protective scroll Psalter Psalter-Hours Qur`an Recipe book Saint's Life Scribal manual Song book Torah Treatise Century 6th century 7th century 8th century 9th century 10th century 11th century 12th century 13th century 14th century 15th century 16th century 17th century 18th century 19th century 20th century Culture Abbasid Arabic Armenian Ashkenazi Austrian Byzantine Carolingian Chinese Christian Coptic Dutch Egyptian English Ethiopian Fatimid Flemish French German Indian Islamic Italian Jewish Mamluk Mughal Ottoman Ottonian Persian Portuguese Qajar Rajput Russian Safavid Sephardi Spanish Timurid Turkish Yemenite Descriptive term Accordion book Album Annotated Binding Calligraphy Caroline minuscule Chart Charter Colophon Damage Diagrams Drawing Early Abbasid script Fragment Gloss Gothic Gothic book hand Grisaille Grotesques Headpiece Heraldry Historiated initial Humanistic Illumination Illustration Inhabited initial Kufic Manicules Medallion Micrography Miniature Missing leaves Musical notation New Abbasid style Notable binding Original binding Ornament Painting Palimpsest Paper Penwork initial Puzzle initial Ragini Romanesque Scrapbook Scroll Scroll-work initial Seals Tables Textura Treasure binding Watermark White-vine lettering Woodcuts Geography Afghanistan Armenia Austria Belgium Central Arab lands (Near East) Central Asia China Egypt England Ethiopia Flanders France Germany Greece India Iran Iraq Israel Italy Maghreb Morocco Netherlands Pakistan Portugal Romania Russia Spain Sub-Saharan (West) Africa Turkey Wales Yemen Other Alchemy Allegory Astrology Astronomy Biblical Binding waste Cartography Church Fathers Cosmology Devotion Financial records Fortune-telling Friendship Games Geography Geomancy Grammar History Kabbalah Legal Literature -- Poetry Literature -- Prose Liturgy Logic Magic Maritime Mathematics Mineralogy Philosophy Piyutim Responsa Science Science -- Medicine Scripture Sufism Theology 13th century 14th century Italian Musical notation Italy Liturgy Antiphonary Puzzle initial