Content:
Part 1 contains Gregorian chants with music notation for
processions at the following liturgical feasts and events: (part 1)
Purification of the Virigin (1r-6v), Palm Sunday (7r-16r), Holy
Thursday (16r-23r), Easter Sunday (23r-33v), Ascension of the Lord
(33v-38r), Corpus Christi (38rv-45r), Visitation (45rv-50r),
Assumption (50r-54r), Church Dedication (54r-58v), reception of a
bishop or legate (58v-59v). Empty: f. 60r-v.
Part 2 contains Gregorian chants with music notation for
processions at the following liturgical feasts and event: Monday of
Pentecost (64v-67r), St. Lawrence (74v-76v), reception of a bishop
or legate (77r-81v), Holy Thursday (81v-88r), St. Martin (89r-90r),
St. Lawrence (90r-91r), Trinity Sunday (91v-94r). - Empty: ff.
94v-96v. Note:
Two parts closely connected.
Collation: (part 1) V (1-10), V-1 (,11-19), VI (20-31), 2V (32-51),
V-1 (52-60,). - (Part 2) IV (61-68), II (69-72), 2IV (73-88), 2II
(89-96). - Text leaf missing between ff. 10 and 11 contained the
end of the responsory "Cum appropinquaret Dominus jherosolimam" and
the beginning of [Gloria laus et honor tibi sit].
Material: (part 1) Quires with mixed paper and parchment leaves in
differing positions: parchment outside in one quire (1/10+2/9+3/8),
inside in two quires (14/15, 36/37), both inside and outside in
three quires (20/31+25/26, 42/51+46/47, 52/*+56/57).
Script: Music in Hufnagel notation on 4-line staves.
Rubrication: Rubrics in two hands, the second hand (containing more
cursive elements) starts at the end of part 1 and continues in part
2.
Decoration: Initials in blue and red alternating (part 1); initials
in red and red-with-black- outlines, mostly alternating (part
2).
Binding: Medieval binding, contemporary. - Parchment cover, no
boards, with fore-edge flap (rectangular, closing back to front).
Limp binding. - Bookblock sewn on three thongs of brown leather,
which are laced-in at the two cover joints and are enforced with
metal rods underneath the cover spine (see Gnirrep & 1989).
Textual: The chants are introduced by rubrics such as: "Ad
processionem" (2v), "Duo ministri antiphona" (5r), Ad introitum
chori (6v), "In die palmarum sub distributione ramorum antiphona"
(7r), "In cena domini ad mandatum pauperum" (16r), "In die sancto
pasce ad aquam benedictam antiphona" (23r), "In die pasce ad
processionem" (24r), "In ascencione domini ad processionem (33v),
"In visitatione marie ad processionem" (45r). - The intended user
of the manuscript belonged to a male monastic order; see the rubric
"Dominus abbas cum ministris" (14v).
Description (Bouwman 2023):
http://hdl.handle.net/1887.1/item:3619870 Subject (temporal):
Middle Ages
15th century
16th century
