MS. Lat. liturg. c. 37
Summary Catalogue no.: Not in SC (late accession)
Contents
The musical notation is Marosszecki's type B, see Les Origines du chant cistercien (Analecta Sacr. Ord. Cist.8), 1952, table p.31.
Temporale
(beginning missing)Office for the dedication
Office for the dead
Venite
Hymns
Canticles, without music
Physical Description
Collation
Layout
c. 28–30 lines, ruled in crayon (or music)
Hand(s)
Italianate script. (Pächt and Alexander iii. 1304)
Pages with music contain 12 staves of 4 lines ruled in red ink
Decoration
Good historiated and other initials (very badly damaged by damp). Pächt and Alexander iii. 1304:
Historiated and leaf scroll initials, damaged but apparently drawn in pen with some colour added, notably blue for backgrounds and frames.
- (fol. 12v) Angel blowing a horn
- (fol. 19v) Nativity
- (fol. 32v) Baptism of Christ
- (fol. 85v) Angel holding a book
- (fol. 94v) Penyecost
- (fol. 100r) Christ in majesty?
- (fol. 105r) Seated figure?
Smaller initials blue flourished in red or red in blue (a few in brown).
Binding
16th cent. stamped German binding, much repaired; in a slip case.
Accompanying Material
Fol.1, with similar script and notation, may be part of the common of virgins, perhaps from a companion Sanctorale.
History
Provenance and Acquisition
The slip-case and upper pastedown are both marked '4 | 913'.
Christie's, 28 April 1966, lot 149 (vendor not stated).
Maggs Bros., inscribed with their pencilled code 'C[hristie's] 5[sic]/66 | 149 | hxeoo' (lower pastedown)
Bought, 1968.
Record Sources
Abbreviations
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Last Substantive Revision
2017-07-01: First online publication.