Montréal, McGill University - Rare Books and Special Collections - Manuscript Collection, MS Medieval 0169 (fragment)

Cantus Siglum

CDN-Mlr MS Medieval 0169 (fragment)

Holding Institution

Montréal, McGill University - Rare Books and Special Collections - Manuscript Collection (CDN-Mlr)

Manuscript/Printed

Manuscript

Summary

Missal, one leaf, Italian, 15th century. No musical notation.

Liturgical Occasions

Eve of Ascension, Ascension Thursday.

Description

Vellum. In Latin. One leaf, 15th century, northern Italian. In Gothic Textualis. 373x270 mm; writing surface 275x200 mm. Two columns, 36 lines, brown ink. Writing surface ruled in light brown ink.

From McGill library's description (2024):

"One vellum leaf from a 15th-century Missal written in Northern Italy ; texts, arranged in 2 columns, in brown ink with some red-stroked letters ; liturgical rubrics in red ; Roman numeral CX (?) on recto.

Mass Propers for the Feasts of In Vigilia Ascensionis [on recto, concluding on the top of column 1 on verso] and In Ascensione Domini [on verso].

Decoration: r. Very thin and long, sixteen-line initial (I), on left margin of c. I, in blue. v. On c. I ten-line initial (U), enclosed in square ground. Initial is in grey, decorated with grey and white arabesques and geometric patterns. It rests on gold leaf ground, bound by 010 mm. wide borders in red and green sections. Letters of -IRI GALILAEI, in red and blue run vertically along the right side of the initial. Between the stems of the initial appear the feet of an ascending figure (Christ ?), wearing a red mantle. The four-quarter border decoration on verso, contains branchwork and acanthus leaf work, in green, crimson, grey, gold and blue. A few irises and calices in blue stem from the branches. There are bezants throughout."
See: https://mcgill.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1302599636

Selected Bibliography

Holland, Anne Marie, compiler. "MS Medieval 169. Missal". Long Descriptions Ms Medieval Manuscript Antiphonals, Missals and Graduals. Digitization and Cataloguing Project- Antiphonals, Missals and Gradual. Updated December 6, 2018, 19-20.

Full Texts Entered by

Martha Culshaw

Full/Partial Inventory

Full Inventory

Complete Source/Fragment

Fragment

Fragment ID

F-pvev

DACT ID

D:0pvev