Princeton, Princeton University Library, MS 125 North 6

Cantus Siglum

US-PRu MS 125 North 6

Holding Institution

Princeton, Princeton University Library (US-PRu)

Manuscript/Print

Manuscript

Physical Status

Complete (or mostly complete)

Description

Material: Parchment
Source type: Antiphonal
Chant type: Unknown
Leaves/pages: 209
Staves per side: 6
Staff lines: 4
Owners/dedicatees: By the 19th century and probably earlier, the manuscript was owned by the Franciscans of San Pedro Regalado in La Aguilera, Aranda de Duero, near Burgos, Spain. Their blue oval stamp is found throughout the manuscript (fols. 1r, 31r, 66r, 106r. In 1980, Martin J. Cooper donated the manuscript to the Princeton University Library (AM 81-63).
Text script: Textualis prescissa
Binding: Later binding. Spanish, 17th century(?). Brown leather over cedar boards (17 mm thick), badly worm-damaged; sewn on 3 thick doubled cords; endbands barrel-stitched, spine lined with music manuscript waste; pastedowns removed (from a choir Psalter?); corner-pieces on lower corners; central boss with 6 petals on front board, removed from back; remains of a chain staple on lower front board; strap and clasp from front to back, catchplate removed.
Notes: Princeton MS. 125 was copied by a Spanish Franciscan named Fray Antonio de Sant Roma(?), who completed work on the manuscript in 1595, according to a scribal note on fol. 191v.