Franciscan antiphoner (sanctorale) with sequences

Collection

Collection MS-1996-097: Franciscan antiphoner (sanctorale) with sequences

Staff Only

Dates

Creation: approximately 1300-1350

Scope and Contents

Gatherings 1-8: Proper of saints Andrew (30 Nov.), Lucy (13 Dec.), Thomas, Apostle (21 Dec.), Agnes (21 Jan.), Purification (2 Feb.), Agatha (5 Feb.), Annunciation (25 Mar.), De sanctis a festo Pasce usque ad Pentecostem, Philip and James (1 May), Inventio Crucis (May 3), John the Evangelist ante portam latinam (6 May), Birth of John the Baptist (24 June), Peter and Paul (29 June), Mary Magdalen (22 July), Laurence (10 Aug.), Assumption (15 Aug.), Beheading of John the Baptist (29 Aug.), Michael (29 Sept.), Francis (4 Oct), All Saints (1 Nov.), Martin (11 Nov.), Cecilia (22 Nov.), Clement (23 Nov.), Clare (12 Aug.); Celi solem imitantes (De Apostolia), Veni sancte spiritus et emitte celistus (De Sanctu Spiritu), Orbis totus gratulemur (De Beata Virgine) -- Gatherings 9-11: Common of saints, apostles, martyrs, confessors and bishops, virgins, dedication of a church; Hodierne lux diei (De Beata Virgine Maria), Celi cives in colono (De Beato Francisco) -- Appendix:Venite exultemus; Sancta Maria succurre miseris iuva pusillanimes; Celi regem attollamus et in voces erumpamus.

A second vocal part has been added to the first stanza of the sequence Celi solem imitantes, the only polyphonic source of this sequence.

Sequence in honor of St. Francis, Celi cives in colono, is not listed in H. Walther's Carmina medii aevi posterioris latina and may be unique.

Bound with added fragment of a late 13th century manuscript as appendix containing nine variant settings of the psalm Venite exultemus.

Creator

Catholic Church (Organization)

Restrictions on Access

Open for research; also available digitally.

Restrictions on Use

These materials are made available for use in research, teaching and private study, pursuant to U.S. Copyright Law. The user must assume full responsibility for any use of the materials, including but not limited to, infringement of copyright and publication rights of reproduced materials. Any materials used for academic research or otherwise should be fully credited with the source. The original authors may retain copyright to the materials.

Extent

1 Linear Feet (1 container) : 119 leaves ; 30 cm.

Language of Materials

Latin

Additional Description

Provenance

Gift of O'Neill Library, 1996. Originally purchased from Lubrano.

Existence of Digital Copies

Available digitally. A links is included in the inventory.

Materials Specific Details

10 lines each of text (written in black ink in a gothic liturgical hand) and of music. Music in black square notation on a 4-line stave. Rubricated; initials in red, black and blue with penwork decoration.

Binding: Late 16th or early 17th century blind-tooled calf over (original?) bevelled wooden boards.