Montréal, McGill University - Rare Books and Special Collections - Manuscript Collection, MS Medieval 0231

Cantus Siglum

CDN-Mrb MS Medieval 0231

Holding Institution

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

Manuscript/Print

Manuscript

Summary

Gradual, two leaves, 15th century. Square notation in black ink on red five-line staff.

Liturgical Occasions

Pentecost Sunday; 1st Sunday after Pentecost; Corpus Christi.

Description

Erroneously described in the 2018 version of the library catalog with the description belonging to MS 0216. The current catalogue describes it as :

"Two vellum leaves from an early 17th-century antiphonal written in Spain ; texts in brown ink ; musical notation in brown ink on five-line red staves ; liturgical rubrics in red

Folio numbering, in red ink, on recto side of each leaf: ci [101] ; cxiiii [114]

Decoration: folio ci, recto: sung text begins with a large initial (S, of Spiritus) drawn with red and blue inks surrounded by symmetrically placed decorative elements in red and grey, filled in with penwork acanthus leaves, and double-framed with red and grey ink borders ; on verso: one large interlaced initial (E, of Exurgat) in dark-brown ink ; one large (A, of Alleluia) in blue ink surrounded by penwork in red -- folio cxiiii, recto: Corporis Christi Introitus text begins with a large initial (C, of Cibavit) drawn with red and blue inks surrounded by decorative penwork in red, filled in with a botanical motif, and double-framed with red and grey ink borders ; on verso: one large interlaced initial (E, of Exsultate) in dark-brown ink

Mass chants for Dominica Pentecostes [folio ci] ; Dominica I post Pentecosten and the feast of Corpus Christi [folio cxiiii]

Folio ci. [chant (Introitus):] [Sapiente (Wisdom) 1:7] Spiritus domini replevit orbem terrarum alleluia et hoc quod continet omnia scientiam habet vocis alleluia alleluia alleluia -- Psalm [67 (68):2]. Exurgat deus et dissipentur inimici eius et fugiant qui oderunt eum a facie eius -- [rubric:] Verse -- [chant:] Gloria. Seculorum -- Alleluia --

Folio cxiiii. [chant (Communio): Psalm 9 (9+10):2-3:] [Narrabo omnia] mirabilia tua letabor et exultabo in te psallam nomini tuo altissime -- [rubric:] In solemnitate sacratissimi Corporis Christi. Introitus -- [chant: [Psalm 80 (81):17:] Cibavit eos ex adipe frumenti alleluia. Et de petra melle saturavit eos alleluia alleluia alleluia -- [rubric:] Psalm [80 (81):2:]. [chant:] Exsultate Deo adiutori nostro. Iubilate De[o Iacob]

Holding in McGill Library's Rare Books and Special Collections: 2 separate, non-sequential folios ; vellum ; unbound "

See: https://archive.org/details/McGillLibrary-rbsc_ms-medieval-231-21232/page/n1/mode/2up

Full/Partial Inventory

Full Inventory

Complete Source/Fragment

Fragment

Fragmentarium ID

F-u1yk

DACT ID

D:0u1yk