Details

Subjects:

Catholic Church -- Liturgy -- Texts.
Catholic Church.
Liturgics.
Missals.
Gregorian chants -- Manuscripts.
Gregorian chants.
Missals -- Specimens.

Form/Genre:

Texts.
Fragments (object portions)
Gregorian chants.
Manuscripts, Latin.
Manuscripts, Medieval.
Specimens.

Language:

Latin.

Summary:

Leaf from a missal containing readings and chant from the Mass for the Ember Saturday in Advent, including the end of the epistle (Thessalonians 2, 2.5-8) and the beginning of the tractus chant with two versus (Qui regis Israel, intende; Qui sedes super Cherubim; Excita, Domine, potentiam tuam) on the recto, and the end of the tractus and the beginning of the Gospel (Luke 3.1-5) on the verso. Possibly written in France, the chant is written in diastematic neumes on 3-line staves, with the bottom line ruled in red and a small c in the left margin between the first and second lines. The text is written in a Protogothic script, and the leaf is ruled in lead, with vertical bounding lines. 2-line red initial with blue flourishing; rubrics in red, some initials slashed with red.

Penn Provenance:

An unclear inscription, lower recto, is dated 1604.
Sold by Phillip J. Pirages (McMinnville, Or.), cat. 57 (2009), no. 60.

OCLC:

419486258