Partial missal for the use of a bishop, unfinished

Description

Title: Partial missal for the use of a bishop, unfinished
Published / Created: [between 1500 and 1550]
Publication Place: Italy
Abstract: Manuscript on parchment (goatskin) of 1) Masses for the main feasts of the Temporale from Christmas to Epiphany. 2) Full text (Ordinary and Sanctorale) of the mass for Candlemas. The rubrics prove that the manuscript is for the use of a bishop (Postea pontifex sollemniter cantet; Deinde pontifex dicat; Postea pontifex dicat hanc orationem, etc.).
Description: In Latin.
Script: Copied by one hand in very large Southern Gothica Textualis Formata (Rotunda). The following texts are in a smaller size of the same script: Introit, Gradual, Tract, Offertory and Communion.
The space for music staves in Gloria (1 line), Preface, Lord's Prayer and Peace has remained blank. Rubrics in red. The high-quality decoration is unfinished and totally missing in ff. 61-71.
Binding: ca. 1700. Limp parchment, with marks of two pairs of ties. The endleaves, added by the dealer Laurence Witten, are two leaves placed transversally and taken from two different antiphonaries.
Provenance: Purchased on the Edwin J. Beinecke Fund in 1989 (?).
Extent: ff. i + 71 + ii : 390 x 275 mm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: Latin

Genre: Manuscripts, Medieval
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Material: parchment ;
Resource Type: unspecified
Subject (Geographic): Connecticut
New Haven.
Subject (Name): Catholic Church.
Subject (Topic): Manuscripts, Medieval
Subjects: Catholic Church. Missal
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library

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Citation: Partial Missal for the Use of a Bishop, Unifinished. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.