Kalamazoo, Western Michigan University, Special Collections, MS 1

Cantus Siglum

US-KAL MS 1

Holding Institution

Kalamazoo, Western Michigan University, Special Collections (US-KAL)

Manuscript/Print

Manuscript

Physical Status

Complete (or mostly complete)

Description

Material: Parchment
Source type: Processional
Chant type: Unknown
Leaves/pages: 83
Staves per side: 5
Staff lines: 1
Colophon: No
Owners/dedicatees: Alfonso Lopez
Text script: rotunda
Notation: Square
Notes: "Processional, transcribed in Spain, probably around 1250, containing music primarily for chants for the Temporale. Music is included for celebrating feasts of the four Sundays of Advent; the Sunday following the octave of Epiphany to Palm Sunday, inclusive; Ascension; Pentecost through the sixth Sunday after Trinity; and a Commemoration for the Virgin. There is also a "Gloria, laus, et honor", and a group of Marian antiphons. Leaves [79] and [80] contain the tract "Sicut cervus", with square notation on four-line staves in a style common from the 15th-century on, and bearing the rubic, "Ad fontes." The final chant (last 2 staves) has text "Heu, heu, Domine, heu, heu, Salvator noster," and is not listed in the Bryden & Hughes Index of Gregorian chant"

Notes on the Inventory

Source of data: Digital Scriptorium