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Title

Gradual (Choir book)

Other related names

• Leber, C. (Constant), 1780-1859, former owner (https://viaf.org/viaf/61645427)
• Renard, Joseph, 1822-1882, former owner (https://viaf.org/viaf/34822019)
• Andrews, William Loring, 1837-1920, former owner (https://viaf.org/viaf/71507405)
• Bishop, Cortlandt F. (Cortlandt Field), 1870-1935, former owner (https://viaf.org/viaf/4920254)
• Collins, Philip S., former owner
• Collins, Mary Schell, former owner

Funders

• Council on Library and Information Resources

Call number

1945‑65‑7
(Philadelphia, United States, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Department of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs, Philip S. Collins Collection)

Alternate identifiers

• https://www.philamuseum.org/collections/permanent/49738.html
• PhilipS.CollinsCollection: 24
• deRicci: 9

Publisher

Department of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs

Language

Latin

Origin

Place

Poissy, France

Summary

This manuscript is a fourteenth-century Dominican Gradual most likely from Poissy, France, in an unusual small and portable format. Following the Temporal, Sanctoral (which includes Thomas Aquinas [fol. 210v], Peter Martyr [fol. 215r], the Translation of Saint Dominic [fol. 219v], Dominic [fol. 229v], and Louis [fol. 234v]), and Common of saints, there are chants for other masses, including votive masses for the Holy Spirit and Holy Cross, seasonal offices in honor of the Virgin, the ordinary of mass for each rank of feast, and a funeral mass. These are followed by sequences for major feasts, and at the end of the volume additional sequences have been added by multiple hands, including chants for Saints Ambrose Sansdon and Raymond of Peñafort, both of the Dominican order, and Saint Louis. Historiated initials with bar borders and ivy leaves mark major divisions of the manuscript as well as certain feasts. Seventeen historiated initials introduce selected masses and major divisions in the book.

Notes

• Gathering 46 misbound, correct folio order is 354, 357, 356, 355
   

Extent

Iii+364+iii; 168 x 115 mm bound to 174 x 133 mm

Foliation

Early foliation in ink, Roman numerals, upper right recto through fol. 189, thereafter modern foliation in pencil, Arabic numerals, upper right recto, one unfoliated leaf after fol. 348

Collation

1-24 (8), 25 (4), 26-45 (8), 46 (3, +1), 47 (6, +1 +2 +3 +4 +5)

Signatures

Contemporary, red Roman numerals, lower right verso, to the left of catchwords, consistent throughout

Support

Parchment

Catchwords

Contemporary horizontal, lower right verso, to the right of signatures, consistent throughout

Binding

Nineteenth-century straight grain red Morocco leather; binder name "Koehler" stamped on spine, and note on verso of third front flyleaf; Jansenist style with silver clasps; stamped on spine "PRECES PIE, MS NOTE"; green twentieth-century slipcase with "GRADUALE MISSARUM, FRANCE CIRCA 1400" stamped on spine

Layout

One column of seven four-line staves ruled in red, with Gregorian musical notation in black and underlying text in black and red; frame-ruled in faint ink with double vertical bounding lines; written area: 120 x 84 mm

Decoration

Seventeen historiated initials with additional grotesque or floral ornamentation in color and gold, following the style of Jean Pucelle

Script

Gothic--textualis

Provenance

• At some time belonged to an owner with initials E.D.; Constant Leber, by 1852 (handwritten description on recto of second front flyleaf identical to description in Leber print catalogue); Joseph Renard (bookplate inside front cover); William Loring Andrews (bookplate and pencil inscription inside front cover); Cortlandt Bishop, Bishop Library (no. 1776, sale 1938); Philip S. Collins (bookplate, front flyleaf, no. 24); gift of Mary Schell Collins in memory of her husband, 1945
   

Related resources

• Leber, M.C., Catalogue des livres imprimés, manuscrits, estampes, dessins et cartes à jouer, composant la Bibliothèque de M.C. Leber, IV (Paris: Techener, 1852), p. 3 (no. 12).
• Zigrosser, Carl, "The Philip S. Collins Collection of Mediaeval Illuminated Manuscripts," Philadelphia Museum of Art Bulletin 58, no. 275 (Autumn 1962): p. 17, ill. (article pp. 3-34).
• Philadelphia Museum of Art, Leaves of Gold: Manuscript Illumination from Philadelphia Collections, edited by James R. Tanis (Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2001), pp. 135-136, in entry for no. 45.
• Naughton, Joan, "Manuscripts from the Dominican monastery of Saint-Louis de Poissy," PhD thesis, Department of Fine Arts, The University of Melbourne, 1995, pp. 75-78, 80, 83, 405-407, Fig. 41.
• Naughton, Joan, "Books for a Dominican Nuns' Choir: Illustrated Liturgical Manuscripts at Saint-Louis de Poissy, c. 1330-1350" in The Art of the Book: Its Place in Medieval Worship, ed. Margaret M. Manion and Bernard J. Muir (Exeter: University of Exeter Press, 1998), pp. 71-72, 93-94, 96-97, Fig. 19 (article pp. 67-110).

Keywords

• Gradual
• 14th century
• Christian
• French
• France
• Gothic
• Historiated initial
• Illumination
• Illustration
• Grotesques
• Musical notation
• Liturgy

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — [Tonary]
• fol. 3v — [Temporal]
• fol. 195r — [Sanctoral]
• fol. 247v — [Common of saints]
• fol. 286r — [Other masses]
• fol. 304r — [Dominican Prosar]
• fol. 355r — [Later additions, including masses for Saints Ambrose, Raymond, and Louis; Dies irae, Tract for Corpus Christi, and Kyriale]

Decorations

• Inside front cover — Bookplate, Joseph Renard
• Inside front cover — Bookplate, William Loring Andrews
• Flyleaf 1 recto — Bookplate, Cortlandt F. Bishop
• Flyleaf 1 recto — Bookplate, Philip S. Collins
• Flyleaf 1 verso — Notations in pencil
• Flyleaf 2 recto — Notations in ink
• fol. 1r — Illuminated initial G
• fol. 3v — Historiated initial A, Priest raising a Soul before the Altar
• fol. 3v — Partial bar border with ivy leaves
• fol. 22v — Historiated initial P, Nativity
• fol. 22v — Partial bar border with ivy leaves
• fol. 26v — Historiated initial E, Adoration of the Magi
• fol. 26v — Partial bar border with ivy leaves
• fol. 131r — Historiated initial R, Resurrection
• fol. 131r — Partial bar border with ivy leaves
• fol. 151v — Historiated initial V, Ascension
• fol. 151v — Partial bar border with ivy leaves
• fol. 155r — Historiated initial S, Pentecost
• fol. 155r — Partial bar border with ivy leaves
• fol. 162v — Historiated initial B, Trinity
• fol. 162v — Partial bar border with ivy leaves
• fol. 192r — Historiated initial T, Dedication
• fol. 192r — Partial bar border with ivy leaves
• fol. 195r — Historiated initial D, Martyrdom of Saint Andrew
• fol. 195r — Partial bar border with ivy leaves
• fol. 222r — Historiated initial D, Saint John the Baptist
• fol. 222r — Partial bar border with ivy leaves
• fol. 233r — Historiated initial G, Coronation of the Virgin
• fol. 233r — Partial bar border with ivy leaves
• fol. 234v — Historiated initial G, Saint Louis
• fol. 234v — Partial bar border with ivy leaves
• fol. 237r — Historiated initial G, Birth of the Virgin
• fol. 237r — Partial bar border with ivy leaves
• fol. 239r — Historiated initial B, Saint Michael
• fol. 239r — Partial bar border with ivy leaves
• fol. 242r — Historiated initial G, All Saints
• fol. 242r — Partial bar border with ivy leaves
• fol. 247v — Historiated initial M, Apostles
• fol. 247v — Partial bar border with ivy leaves
• fol. 304r — Historiated initial L, Annunciation to the Shepherds
• fol. 304r — Partial bar border with ivy leaves
• fol. 363v — Notations in ink
• Flyleaf 1 recto — Bookplate, Cortlandt F. Bishop
• Flyleaf 1 recto — Bookplate, Philip S. Collins
• Flyleaf 1 verso — Notations in pencil
• Flyleaf 2 recto — Notations in ink