Antiphonal : in Latin
Item Information
- Title:
- Antiphonal : in Latin
- Description:
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December volume of what was presumably a larger set of antiphonals consisting of one volume per month. -- Dominica prima in adventu domini ... / Ad ma[tutina]s a./ Ecce nomen domini ... / [fol. 234v, original explicit] ... via recta ad eternal gaudia/ [fol. 235v, slightly later] ... clamantium et dicentium. Innocens. Gloria.
- Creator:
- Catholic Church
- Former owner:
- Cockerell, Sydney Carlyle, Sir, 1867-1962
- Auctioneer:
- Sotheby's (Firm)
- Date:
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[1325–1375]
- Format:
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Manuscripts
Books
- Genre:
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Illuminations
Manuscript waste
Inscriptions
Antiphonaries (Service books)
Gothic scripts
Manuscripts, Medieval--Italy
- Location:
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Boston Public Library
Rare Books Department - Collection (local):
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Medieval and Early Renaissance Manuscripts (Collection of Distinction)
- Places:
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Italy
- Extent:
- 232 leaves : parchment, ill. ; 555 x 400 (395 x 250) mm bound to 59 x 42 cm
- Permalink:
- https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/8s45t722k
- Terms of Use:
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No known copyright restrictions.
No known restrictions on use.
- Place of origin:
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[Italy]
- Language:
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Latin
- Table of Contents:
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1. fol. 1-141v: Temporale (Dom. I Advent
Vigil of Epiphany (1/5))
2. fol. 142-228: Sanctorale (St. Andrew (11/30)
Innocents (12/28))
3. fol. 235-235v: Slightly later addition, the Responsory "Homo dei ducebatur" and Versicle "Cumque carnifices," for St. Andrew. These may have been added as a correction to the liturgy for St. Andrew on fol. 144v, where this important Responsory is lacking but has been added as an incipit in the lower margin by a 16th-century hand.
- Notes:
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Ms. codex.
Bibliographic record created by BPL staff based on description by Dr. Lisa Fagin Davis.
Origin: Written in Italy in the mid-fourteenth century, the December volume of what was presumably a larger set consisting of one volume per month. Repairs throughout from a small, two-column thirteenth-century Bible manuscript.
- Notes (ownership):
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Provenance: Shelfmark "N" on lower edge; 18th-century label on front cover with description of contents, repeated inside front cover; contents detailed by same hand inside front cover.
- Notes (acquisition):
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Immediate source of acquisition: Sold Sotheby's London 25 February 1901, lot 321, to Sydney Cockerell for the Boston Public Library. Acquired by BPL on 29 April 1901.
- Notes (date):
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This date is inferred.
- Notes (citation):
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Ricci, S. de. Census of medieval and Renaissance manuscripts in the United States and Canada, p. 918
- Notes (object):
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Secundo folio: ... nostra salus quam ...
Collation: Parchment, fol. i (early paper) + 232 + i (early paper) ; 1-6⁸ 7⁴⁻³ 8⁸⁻¹ 9-17⁸ 18¹⁰⁻¹ 19⁶ 20-28⁸ 29¹⁰⁻¹; lacking fol. 51-54 (part of the third Sunday of Advent); one leaf cancelled after fol. 141, the end of the Temporale; one leaf cancelled after fol. 227 ; catchwords in lower corner, final verso of each quire. 16th-century arabic black ink foliation, skips several numbers, repeats others, and makes other mistakes, so reaches "235" instead of 232. Liturgical incipits often include suprascript interlinear cross-references, in Italian and contemporary with the foliation, to the folio on which the full text can be found (e.g. on folio 16, "Carte 3
Layout: Single column, 6 staves. Bounding and writing lines in blind. Square Gregorian notation on a four-line red staff, some stems, measure lines added later.
Script: Written in a gothic rotunda in black ink with red rubrics.
Decoration: One-line initials throughout alternating red with blue filigree or blue with red, or both; one-line initials throughout in thick black penwork with yellow wash; 1- to 2-staff high floriate initials throughout in gold and colors; fifteen 2- to 3-line initials in similar style, 3-line initials on fol. 2v and 21v; 1-line initials historiated with human figures on fol. 85v, 94v and 101; larger historiated initial on fol. 125v of St. John standing beneath an arch holding a book, for his office.
Binding: Early/contemporary brown calf over boards, rebacked, round brass bosses on both covers, rag paper pastedowns and conjoint flyleaves at front and back (no watermarks), boss burns. A number of leaves mended with portions of a miniature (Paris?) Bible manuscript.
- Notes (language):
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In Latin.
- Identifier:
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06_01_018629
- Call #:
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RARE BKS MS pf Med.8
MS G.400.3 (no longer used)
- Barcode:
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39999059855179
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