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CDN-Mlr MS Medieval 0206 (fragment)

Summary

Missal, two leaves, Italian?, 15th century. No musical notation.

Liturgical Occasions

Temporale: 23rd and 24th Sundays after Pentecost. Sanctorale: Purification of Mary.

Description

"Two leaves, on vellum, in latin. 15th century, large rounded gothic characters. Probably northern Italian. 330x249 mm., writing surface 215x160 mm. Two columns, 30 lines. Light-brown ink, red rubrics. Contemporary foliation in red ink (CCIIII, CCXIII). On f. 1/r one three-line initial (E) in inks and tempera in shades of green and yellow, on square ground, in various shades of red and brown with acanthus leaves extending along the margin, in blue, crimson, green and red; buds in burnished silver stem from the leaves; an asterisk in light-yellow. On f. 2/v, one four-line initial (O), in inks and tempera in shades of brown, red, yellow and burnished silver, on square ground in shades of blue. Acanthus leaves in shades of blue, green, and light-brown, extend from the ground into the margin; asteriks in burnished silver appear between the leaves. One three-line initial (S) on f. 2/v, in red and blue inks, on square ground, made of curlicues, bars and filigree decorations, extending into the margin, all drawn in red ink. Numerous one and two-line initials in alternating blue and red inks with bars, alternating in blue and red, extending into the margins. Contents. f. CCIIII. f. 1. r. a. tumultuantem, dicebat. Recedite....(Matthew IX, 23) Dominica XXIII post Pentecostem. Dominica XXIIII post Pentecostem (red rubrics) Excita Domine, quaesumus tuorum fidelium voluntates (Oratio) b. ut divini operis fructum.... In illo tempore, dixit Iesus discipulis suis (Matthew, XXIV, 15-35) Cum videritis abominationem desolationis quae dicta est a Dani- v. a. ele propheta stantem in loco sancto.... b. ....Caelum et terra transibunt, verba (Matthew, XXIV, 35) f. CCXIII. f. 2. r. a. In Festo Purificationis beatae Mariae Virginis (festa Februarii). Seculi caliginosa discrimina.....(Oratio) ....ut eiusdem Spiritus sancti gratia illumi- (Oratio) b. nati atquae edocti, te veraciter.... et quae extrinsecus annua tribuis devotione (Oratio) v. a. venerari, interius assequi.... parturturum aut duos pullos columbarum. Sicut scriptum.... ....Et statim veniet ad templum sanctum (Lectio Malachiae, 3). Provenance. f. 1. Presented by the Friends of the Library, 1941. f. 2. P.W. and J.C.Redpath Fund, 1941." (Holland, Anne Marie, compiler. "MS Medieval 207". Long Descriptions Ms Medieval Manuscript Antiphonals, Missals and Graduals. Digitization and Cataloguing Project- Antiphonals, Missals and Gradual. Updated December 6, 2018), 26-27.

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