Montréal, McGill University - Rare Books and Special Collections - Manuscript Collection, MS Medieval 0170

Cantus Siglum

CDN-Mlr MS Medieval 0170

Holding Institution

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

Manuscript/Print

Manuscript

Summary

Antiphonal, one leaf, 550 x 410 mm. Square notation in black ink on red four-line staff.

Liturgical Occasions

Two Marian antiphons.

Description

From the McGill library catalogue:
"2 Marian antiphons from an early to mid 16th-century choirbook likely written in Northern Italy.

Holding in McGill Library's Rare Books and Special Collections:

Gregorian chant on 4-line red staves ; texts in dark-brown ink with traces of burnished gold ; liturgical rubrics principally in red with antiphon title (Ave Regina) in brown ink.

Decoration: one small, non-representational, marginal blue ink drawing to the left of the rubric ; one large initial (A) in blue surrounded by red, blue and light brown ink linear and curvilinear patterns, and foliate designs.

Gift of Miss Finley in December 1952."

Single leaf from an antiphonal. 550 x 410 mm. Labeled "29" in Arabic numerals in center upper margin, partially trimmed off, in a grey ink; probably this is slightly later than the page contents.
Five four-line red staves per page; one has been lengthened slightly to the right in brown ink, another lengthened to the left in red. Grey lines of division, the height of one staff; upward-pointing custodes; f-clef with double vertical hairlines; b-flat made with two mostly vertical strokes; square notation, with the lower note of the pes generally longer than the upper. Some evidence of later correction to the notes, both through addition and erasure. The page is rather blotchy, suggesting some water damage; the lower margin is also quite wrinkled.

Text is a rounded Italian Southern Textualis with curling hairlines. Chant texts and incipits are in a black-ish ink; a large rubric indicating the season during which the Marian antiphon is to be sung is given in red ink and set off with a blue paraph sign in the margin. Little evidence of gold, but several letters are decorated with hairline flourishes. One boxed initial, blue against a detailed red background with yellow highlights.

Italian, probably sixteenth century.

Selected Bibliography

McGill library catalogue entry: https://mcgill.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1295439499

Notes on the Inventory

Description by Anna de Bakker

Full Texts Entered by

Martha Culshaw

Melodies Entered by

Martha Culshaw

Full/Partial Inventory

Full Inventory

Complete Source/Fragment

Fragment

Fragmentarium ID

F-jx5t

DACT ID

D:0jx5t