Gottschalk Antiphonary (fragment).
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Description
- Title
- Gottschalk Antiphonary (fragment).
- Published / Created
- [between 1190 and 1199]
- Publication Place
- Lambach, Austria
- Abstract
-
Manuscript fragment on parchment of an antiphonary written by the 12th- and 13th-century Lambach-based scribe Gottschalk. Among other items it contains: Epiphany (6 January); St. Agatha (5 February); St. Scholastica (10 February); Chair of St. Peter (22 February); St. Gregory (12 March); Annunciation (25 March); Maundy Thursday, compline; Good Friday; Easter; Exaltation of the Cross (14 September); St. Thomas (21 December); and St. Andrew (30 November).
- Description
-
In Latin.
Script: written in late Caroline minuscule by Gottschalk, a scribe at Lambach in the twelfth and early thirteenth century.
Decoration: the responsorial liturgy of most feasts begins with a 3- to 5-line initial in red with red vine-stem decoration and violet bands and foliage drawn by Gottschalk; three historiated initials of a trumpeter, Prophet Isaiah, and Gregory the great; 1-line red capitals are present in many antiphons as are 1-line initials of responses in thick brown uncials traced or dotted with red; rubrics written in red rustic capitals; punctuated with the punctus; interlinear neumes in the St. Gall style; tonary letters are written in the outer margin of each folio drawn on tiers of a column representing architectural support. - Provenance
- Other leaves of the Gottschalk Antiphonary are preserved in Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University, Houghton Library, Pf. MS Typ 705; Lambach, Stiftsbibliothek, Ink.I.95; Ink. II.1.i; Ink. II.36; St. Louis Public Library, Rare Books and Special Collections, Grolier #44; St. Paul-im-Lavanttal, Stiftsbibliothek, Fragment 54/8; and a private Austrian collection (1 leaf).
- Extent
- ff. 1-17 : 310 x 213 mm.
- Extent of Digitization
- This object has been completely digitized.
- Language
-
Latin
Collection Information
- Repository
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
- Call Number
- Beinecke MS 481.51
- Related Resource Online
- View a detailed description.
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
-
Manuscripts, Medieval Austria 12th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscript Fragments in Beinecke Library
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library - Material
- parchment ;
- Resource Type
- unspecified
- Subject (Geographic)
-
Connecticut
New Haven. - Subject (Name)
- Catholic Church
- Subject (Topic)
-
Liturgy
Manuscripts, Medieval
Antiphonaries - Subjects
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Catholic Church > Liturgy
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Antiphonaries
Austria > 12th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscript Fragments in Beinecke Library
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
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- Access
- Public
- Rights
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- Citation
- Gottschalk Antiphonary (fragment). General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Identifiers
- Catalog Record
- 12838146
- Object ID (OID)
- 2003631
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