[Introit] Salve sancta parens ... / Ym[nu]s. Virgo dei genetris ... / v. Gloria/ Gr. Benedicta et venerabilis ... / v. Virgo dei genetris ... / v. Felix es sacra virgo ... / ... ex te ortus est soluitsi ... Mass for the Nativity of the Virgin (8 September)
Notes:
Ms. leaf.
Title devised by cataloger.
Origin: Written in Germany in the first half of the fourteenth century.
Bibliographic record created by BPL staff based on description by Dr. Lisa Fagin Davis.
Notes (acquisition):
Source of acquisition: Purchased in 1955 from Maggs.
Notes (citation):
Bond, W.H. Supplement to the Census of medieval and Renaissance manuscripts in the United States and Canada, p. 218
Notes (object):
Layout: Single column, nine staves. staves. Bounding and writing lines in red, bounding and upper, middle and lower writing lines full-length. Square Gregorian notation on a four-line red staff, no stems, measure lines added later in black or red.
Script: Written in a Gothic rotunda in black ink with red rubrics.
Decoration: Mid-line major chants begin with slightly enlarged initial in blue with red penwork or vice versa; versicles begin with slightly enlarged initials in black with red infill. On the recto, a two-staff high angular initial [S] in green within a dark red and salmon border, historiated in two compartments: in the upper, a bishop at the left (the High Priest?) and a hooded man (Joachim?) at right; in the lower, the Birth of the Virgin: St. Anne lies in bed as a midwife hands her the newborn infant Mary, whose cradle is visible in the background.
Binding: Housed in an oversized folder.