[Antiphonarium]

[Antiphonarium]

Parchment; ff. 2, not consecutive nor attached to one another; with a very deep lower border (as if in anticipation of an eventual need to add notes to the page?); 9 lines of text, each preceded by its row of staves; pricking along both the outer and the inner margins that ties in groups of 5 holes to the 1 text line plus 4 stave lines. Formal gothic minuscule that includes both the curled line ("ricciolo") and the small waved line ("ondina") abbreviation marks for, respectively, the preconsonantal "r" and the prevocalic "r"; see Andrea Bocchi, "Riccioli e ondine. L'abbreviazione per vibrante preconsonantica e prevocalica nella gotica italiana dei secoli xiii e xiv," Scriptorium 61 n. 2 (2007) 430-437 and images on pl. 52; at the end of the article, Bocchi places use of these marks in central Italy, and he dates them to the time span of the 13th century and into the early years of the 15th. Music in square notation on 4-line red staves with a custos at the end of the set of staves. Initials of somewhat more than 1-line height (they extend into the staves' second line from the bottom) in plain alternating red with simplistic blue flourishing, and blue with red flourishing; the letter following the decorated initial and occasional other initials throughout the text are touched in red. Rubrics in red that are copied above (not before) the beginning of the relevant piece of text. Early modern pagination in ink in the uppermost outer corner of each side of the leaf.

Written in Italy during the early years of the 15th century. On p. 202, in the center lower margin, the pencilled note: "Mr. Charles D[avenport ?] Champlin, 3-2-36 D" presumably representing the person from whom these two leaves were acquired, and the date of acquisition, March 2, 1936; the initial "D" may represent the librarian. In-house library files cite the name of Louis Charles Elson (1848-1920) but probably incorrectly.

Title and date from De Ricci.

Bibliography: De Ricci. Census, p. 1212, no. 28

Antiphonal, with responsories 2 through 6, and their accompanying versicles, for Quinquagesima Sunday. -- Antiphonal, with responsories 1 through 5, and their accompanying versicles, for Passion Sunday.

[15th century]

2024-02-14

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2 leaves (9 lines) of music ; 43 x 32 cm

parchment

RBR Mss. C33A66 1400z

[Italy]

pp. 150-151: //[Dum staret abraham ad ilicem Mambre vidit tres] viros ascendentes per viam Tres vidit et unum adoravit. Vers., Ecce sara uxor tua pariet tibi filium et vocabis nomen eius ysaac. Tres. Resp. iii, Temptavit deus Abraham et dixit ad eum, Tolle filium tuum quem diligis ysaac . . . Resp. vi, Deus domini mei Abraham dirige viam meam ut cum salute revertar in domum domini mei. Vers., Obsecro domine fac misericordiam <catchword: cum servo tuo>// -- pp. 220-221: //[Isti sunt dies quos observare debetis temporibus suis quarta de]cima die ad vesperam pascha domini est et in quinta decima sollempnitatem celebrabitis altissimo domino. Vers., Locutus est dominus ad moysen dicens loquere filiis Israel et dices ad eos. Quarta. Resp. ii, Multiplicati sunt qui tribulant me . . . Resp. v, In te iactatus sum ex utero de ventre matris mee deus meus es tu ne discedas a me Quoniam tribulatio proxima est et non est qui adiuvet. Vers., Salva me ex ore leonis//