Manuscript on parchment of a gradual containing the Mass of the Dead, Kyrie, Sanctus and Agnus Dei, and other feasts.
Description:
Binding: 19th-century binding of reddish brown leather over cardboard; both covers blind-tooled., Decoration: rubrics in red; red stroking of majuscules; red or blue 1-line versals; alternately red and blue 1- or 2-line flourished initials with primitive penwork in the contrasting color; litterae duplices in various places., Notation in cheironomic neumes., Script: copied by various hands writing northern gothica textualis libraria., and Signature of 18th-cent. owner on front flyleaf: "Ex museo Josephi de Fabert, D.M. 1782."
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church--Liturgy.
Subject (Topic):
Graduals (Chants), Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven., and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library.
Manuscript, on parchment, in two scribal hands, of a processional according to the use of Sarum. The manuscript, which is apparently lacking two gatherings and includes fourteen later additions, features extensive musical notation on 4-line staves.
Alternative Title:
Processional.
Description:
Anathema in Middle English verse on the verso of the second flyleaf: "This bok is on and goddys crus ys anodur/He that stel the ton mot haue the todyr" in a fifteenth-century hand., Annotation on verso of nineteenth-century endpaper, in pencil, identifying the text as a "Sarum Processional," dated 1847., Binding: nineteenth-century black morocco, gilt; marbled endpapers. JHS monogram framing cross centered on both covers. Title in gilt on black leather tag on spine., Decoration: musical notation on 4-line staves, red and blue penwork initials, rubrics, and blue paragraph marks. Numerous initials in brown ink, some decorated with faces and grotesques., Ex libris W. J. Birkbeck. From the collection of Toshiyuki Takamiya, 2013-., In Latin; ownership inscription and anathema in Middle English., Layout: single columns, mostly of 23 lines., Numerous other early ownership inscriptions and pen trials on front flyleaves., Ownership inscription for the parish church of St. Mary, Redgrave, Suffolk: "Iste liber constat de Redgrave" in a fifteenth-century hand., and Script: gothic script.
Subject (Name):
Birkbeck, W. J.--(William John),--1859-1916--Bookplate., Catholic Church.--Processional (Salisbury), and Catholic Church--Liturgy.
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven., Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library., and Processionals (Liturgical books)
Manuscript on parchment of a ferial psalter containing a calendar, a psalter with hymns and antiphons, canticles, a litany, and the Office of the Dead.
Description:
Binding: early binding; undecorated brown leather over wooden boards., Decoration: rubrics in red (rare); red or blue paragraph marks. Red stroking of majuscules. Alternately red and blue versals; brown or grey cadels, often decorated with a grotesque human face; numerous 2-line dentelle initials; large foliate initials on ff. 7v, 52r, 63v, 74v; these are accompanied by three-margins left floral borders., and Script: copied in northern gothica textualis formata (textus rotundus) with English features.
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church--Liturgy.
Subject (Topic):
Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven., Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library., and Psalters.
Manuscript on parchment of a processional for use by a Dominican nuns' convent. Includes processionals for Palm Sunday, Maundy Thursday, and Easter among others.
Description:
Binding: original binding; reddish brown leather over wooden boards. Both covers blind-tooled., Decoration: red rubrics (often missing); 2-line red plain initials for the prayers; black cadels of the same height, stroked in red., Purchased by Thomas E. Marston in 1949 from C.A. Stonehill., and Script: written in somewhat irregular northern gothica textualis formata. Musical notation is in nota quadrata.
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church--Liturgy.
Subject (Topic):
Holy Week music., Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven., Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library., and Processionals (Liturgical books)--Early works to 1800.
Manuscript on parchment of a processional for a Dominican nuns' convent. Processions for Palm Sunday, Maundy Thursday, Easter, Dedication of a Church, and Holy Week are included.
Description:
Binding: original binding; brown pigskin over bevelled wooden boards; both covers blind-tooled., Decoration: red rubrics (rare); 2-line red plain initials for prayers; black cadels of 1-line height; initial on f. 1r decorated with a grotesque human face., Purchased by Thomas E. Marston in 1933 from J. Rosenthal., and Script: the text is written in a somewhat irregular northern gothica textualis formata. Musical notation is in nota quadrata.
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church--Liturgy.
Subject (Topic):
Holy Week music., Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven., Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library., and Processionals (Liturgical books)--Germany--Early works to 1800.