[Missale]

[Missale]

Parchment; formal gothic book hand in two sizes of script; 2 columns of 30 lines, ruled in lead (?). 2-line initials within the text area (except for the letter I, which is placed outside of the text area, and is equivalent to ca. 5 lines in height), alternating gold with dark blue (or black) flourishing, or blue with red flourishing. Rubrics in red. Foliation in red roman numerals in the center upper margin of the recto: CCXXII; what may be modern foliation is in pencil in the lower outer corner of the recto, "130."

Written in France during the first half of the 15th century. This manuscript uses the word "officium" to designate the introit of the mass; such usage is common to books of Carthusian, Dominican or Carmelite rite. Belonged to Louis Charles Elson (1848-1920) who was a professor of music theory and history at the New England Conservatory of Music from age 34 onwards; he had begun studying music with his mother, then went on to study in Leipzig; he composed songs, operetta and works for the piano, but mainly he studied and wrote on the history of music; he published in a number of Boston newspapers, and was the editor-in-chief of Modern Music and Musicians (1912; 20 vols.) and of the University Musical Encyclopedia (1912-14; 10 vols.), among the ca. 50 items that he published over the course of his life. The collection of medieval fragments of music that had belonged to Louis Charles Elson was acquired in 1924 by the Grosvenor Library in Buffalo NY; this library, together with the Erie County Library and the Buffalo Public Library merged in 1953 to form today's Buffalo and Erie County Public Library; initials BECPL stamped in lower margin of the recto. This leaf was n. 20 in the Elson collection; that information in the small ovel label on the uppermost corner of the recto: "No. 20, Elson Collection."

Numbered "CCxxii" in upper margin.

Title from De Ricci.

Bibliography: De Ricci. Census, p. 1211, no. 15

Missal, with the mass for the feast of The Chains of Peter (1 August) from its introit through the beginning of its post-communion prayer.

[1400-1450]

2023-12-20

Louis C. Elson Collection. no. 20

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Text

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1 leaf (2 columns, 30 lines) ; 34 x 23 cm

parchment (animal material)

RBR Mss. C33M54 1400

[France]

//Ad magnam missam officium, Nunc scio vere quia misit dominus angelum suum et eripuit me de manu herodis . . . Communio, Tu es petrus et super hanc petram edificabo ecclesiam meam. Postcommnio, Sumptis domine remediis sempiternus//