Processionale (pars aestivalis) for the Collegiate Church of St. Genesius at Clermont-Ferrand


Description

Title
Processionale (pars aestivalis) for the Collegiate Church of St. Genesius at Clermont-Ferrand
Published / Created
ca. 1500
Publication Place
France (Clermont-Ferrand?)
Description
Binding: Nineteenth-century. Marbled leather over cardboard, repaired. Gold-tooled spine with title on red leather label: LIVRE D'HEURES. Brown marbled paper endpapers.
Manuscript on parchment. Many pages badly damaged and faded, especially f. 1r. Copied by one hand in Northern Gothica Textualis Formata. Rubrics in Gothica Hybrida Formata (Bastarda). Music notation in Nota Quadrata.
Red rubrics. Heightening of majuscules in yellow. Alternately red and blue1-line plain initials on ff. 176r-177r. Flourished initials (height: 1 stave + 1 text line) alternately red with purple penwork and blue with red penwork. Cadels (same size) in a rectangular frame decorated with foliage on a yellow background. On f. 1r damaged large golden initial (2 staves + 2 lines of text) on a blue background containing coat of arms of Hugo Gontard, a canon in the collegiate church of St. Genesius (St. Genez) at Clermont-Ferrand in 1515 and abbot of the said church, 1519-1545.
Sold in 1865 by Musikantiquariat Walter Ricke at Munich. On the front pastedown armorial bookplate with the device Imitare quam invidere of the Albert H. Childs, Yale '61, Memorial Collection at Yale University Library, with the number Ms. 2. [But would have been offered for sale by Michel Huglo in 1982].
Extent
ff. ii + 177 + ii : parchment ; 145 x 110 mm.
Extent of Digitization
Completely digitized
Language
Latin

Collection Information

Call Number
Beinecke MS 638

Subjects, Formats, And Genres

Format
mixed material and notated music
Genre
Manuscripts, Medieval
Musical works
Resource Type
Archives or Manuscripts
Subject (Name)
Catholic Church
Subject (Topic)
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscripts, Medieval -- Connecticut -- New Haven
Music -- 15th century
Processionals (Liturgical books)

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Identifiers

Orbis Record
9614678
OID
9998920
More Information
https://pre1600ms.beinecke.library.yale.edu/docs/pre1600.ms638.htm

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