Fragment from an 18th-century antiphonal : manuscript

by: Catholic Church, issuing body.

Publication date: 1700

Topics: Catholic Church -- Liturgy., Gregorian chants., Antiphonaries., Music -- Manuscripts., Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern), Detached leaf, McGill University Library Digitized Title, Manuscript Antiphonals Digitization Project, Catholic Church -- Liturgy, Gregorian chants, Antiphonaries, Music -- Manuscripts

Publisher: [Place of production not identified] : [producer not identified]

Collection: mcgilluniversity; mcgilluniversityrarebooks; toronto

Contributor: McGill University Library

Language: Latin

1 folio ; 76 x 54 cm

Title supplied by cataloguer

1 vellum leaf from an 18th-century antiphonal ; musical notation in black ink on five-line red staves ; liturgical rubrics in red. ; modern pagination: 87 on recto ; 8 [that is, 88] on verso

Scribal techniques suggest Mexico or Spain as place of origin

Vespers chants for the feast of Nativitas Mariae (Nativity of Mary) (September 8)

Decoration: verso left border and part of bottom border elaborately decorated with interwoven curvilinear botanical designs in red, blue, green, brown and yellow inks ; top border decoration includes 2 images of "the shoot of Jesse" from which stems and flowers emanate ; verso chant begins with a large ornamental initial B, drawn with blue, red, green and brown inks, and whose decorations include several "shoot of Jesse" motifs

Recto: [antiphon:] [Haec est regina virginum quae genuit regem velut rosa decora virgo dei genetrix per quam re]perimus deum et hominem alma virgo intercede pro nobis omnibus -- Psalm [112 (113)]: Laudate pueri. Evoue. -- [responsory text:] Stirps Iesse -- [rubric:] tertium versiculum ; [verse text:] Ora pro nobis -- [rubric:] Ad Magnificat Antiphona --

Verso: [antiphon:] Beatissime virginis Mariae nativitatem devotissime celebremus ut ipsa [pro nobis intercedat ad dominum deum nostrum]

Holding in McGill Library's Rare Books and Special Collections: presented by Lady Roddick, 1945. Purchased from Dawson’s Book Shop.(Montreal)

Holding in McGill Library's Rare Books and Special Collections: 1 folio ; vellum, unbound

Addeddate: 2022-02-11 19:03:40

Associated-names: Catholic Church, issuing body

Identifier: McGillLibrary-rbsc_ms-medieval-078-21064

Identifier-ark: ark:/13960/s2dv92btwp7

Note: Title supplied by cataloguer.
1 vellum leaf from an 18th-century antiphonal ; musical notation in black ink on five-line red staves ; liturgical rubrics in red. ; modern pagination: 87 on recto ; 8 [that is, 88] on verso.
Scribal techniques suggest Mexico or Spain as place of origin.
Vespers chants for the feast of Nativitas Mariae (Nativity of Mary) (September 8).
Decoration: verso left border and part of bottom border elaborately decorated with interwoven curvilinear botanical designs in red, blue, green, brown and yellow inks ; top border decoration includes 2 images of "the shoot of Jesse" from which stems and flowers emanate ; verso chant begins with a large ornamental initial B, drawn with blue, red, green and brown inks, and whose decorations include several "shoot of Jesse" motifs.
Recto: [antiphon:] [Haec est regina virginum quae genuit regem velut rosa decora virgo dei genetrix per quam re]perimus deum et hominem alma virgo intercede pro nobis omnibus -- Psalm [112 (113)]: Laudate pueri. Evoue. -- [responsory text:] Stirps Iesse -- [rubric:] tertium versiculum ; [verse text:] Ora pro nobis -- [rubric:] Ad Magnificat Antiphona --
Verso: [antiphon:] Beatissime virginis Mariae nativitatem devotissime celebremus ut ipsa [pro nobis intercedat ad dominum deum nostrum].
Holding in McGill Library's Rare Books and Special Collections: 1 folio ; vellum, unbound.
Description based in part on a long description made by specialist Dionysios Hatzopoulos in the late 1980s and early 1990s in collaboration with McGill librarian Richard Virr.