Rouse MS. 79 ANTIPHONAL, fragments. Central France.

Item Overview

Title

Rouse MS. 79 ANTIPHONAL, fragments. Central France.

Date Created

s. XVex

Language

Latin

Collection

Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts

Notes

Description

Decoration:Major initials in alternating red and blue with pen infilling and flourishing. Large initials alternating in red and blue and pen-flourished, occasionally with faces (ff. 114v, 124, 125v). Mid-sized initials in black on green, occasionally with pen faces colored tan (ff. 119r-v, 124v, 125, unnumbered fragment verso). An erroneous large red initial A[lorificamus] on f. 187 has a discreet contemporary mauve G with harping inserted beside it.
Physical description:Parchment (with frequent tears sewn up and pasted over), 7 ½ ff., 538 x 404 (395 x 260/265) mm.; half folio 268 x 380 (written space width, 265) mm. 8 staves with text; text ruled in lead point. Ink badly rubbed, texts occasionally erased, struck through, painted over and rewritten, and patched. Upper outer corner of f. 114 patched with the left margin of a leaf containing chap. xviii of a theological text, from a manuscript with J-band decoration written in France ca. 1280-1320 (65 x 125 mm.); only the first two or three letters of text are present. Lower right corner of f. 125 repaired with a patch from a thirteenth-century Latin text probably written in France (155 x 70 mm.). Lower right corner of f. 190 repaired with a patch from the lower margin of a document written in S. France (175 x 85 mm.); the tail of a red and blue pen-flourish and a notary’s ruche are visible. F. 190 has vertical slits in the outer margin for a parchment fore-edge tab. Heavily thumbed in upper and lower outer corners from long use.
Contents:1. unfoliated lower half of a folio, r-v, [perhaps for an office early in Lent; recto:] // in innocentia mea ingressus sum … stetit in via recta // [verso:] // orum et mittere canibus ad manducandum. Ver. At illa dixit etiam domine nam et catelli edunt de micis que ca // [catchword: dunt de mensa; Mt. 15.26-27]2. ff. 114r-v, 119r-v, [the 2nd bifolium of a quire; f. 114r-v:] // voce lacrimabili clamaverunt … consolationi tormentis. Amen. Sabbato sancto tractus. Tractus post .iiii. prophetis. Cantemus domino gloriose … Versus. Hic deus meus et honorificabo eum. De // [f. 119] // entia tua, alleluya alleluya. Domine probasti me … Res. Hec dies quam fecit … Versus. Confitemini domino … Versus. Angelus domini … revolvit lapidem et sede //3. ff. 124-125v, [the center bifolium of a quire:] // aquarum alleluya … Communio. Si consurrexistis … Feria quarta officium. Intro. Venite benedicti … Ver. Cantate Domino … Res. Hec dies. Ver. Dextera domini … Versus. In die resurrectionis … Offer. Portas celi … Communio. Christus resurgens … Feria quinta officium. Intro. Victricem manum tuam domine laudaverunt pariter, alle // 4. f. 177r-v, [includes the beginning of the office for the 22nd Sunday after Trinity:] // adiutor et protector eorum est. Offer. Vir erat in terra … Communio In salutari tuo … Dominica xxii officium. Introitus. Si iniquitates observaveris //5. ff. 187r-v, 190r-v, [the 3rd bifolium of a quire, with parts of the Gloria and the creed; f. 187r-v:] //terra pax hominibus bone voluntatis. Laudamus te … Tu solus altissimus Ihesu Christe, cum sancto spiritu in gloria dei patris amen // [f. 190r-v:] // Patrem omnipotentem factorem celi … Et resurrexit tertia die secundum scripturas, et ascendit in celum /
Music: Square notation of Paris type written on four-line staves inked in red with a four-nib pen. Using the punctum, pes, clivis, climacus, porrectus, torculus, scandicus, oriscus, plica, and quilisma(?). Pitch given by F and C letter clefs. Oncoming pitches indicated at the end of each stave by a custos. A second hand has added stems to some punctum, creating virga, as well as adding accidentals, including sharps and B-flats. The same hand has added double-bars and marks to puncti at the ends of chants and phrases to create breves. This is perhaps the same editor, working during the s. XVI period of religious upheaval and corresponding changes to liturgy, who has washed away or crossed out sections of chant, particularly longer melismas.

Physical Description

Medium

parchment

Keywords

Location

central France

Subjects

Manuscripts, Renaissance