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MSE 1414-1

Dominican Antiphonary

Contents:

Mass settings for the Feast of angels and some simple and dual feasts

extent:ff. 3r-17r

incipit: [quoniam] tu solus sanctus

explicit: Alleluia. Alleluia. Benedictus.
Temporale

extent:ff. 18r-319r

incipit: Missus est Gabriel Angelus ad Mariam

explicit: Magnificat Seuouaen.

decoration:Each verse begins with an initial in red. Antiphons are begun in large, typically Spanish initials. The feasts of Christmas, Ephiphany, Easter, the Acension, Pentecost, and Corpus Christi have larger, more elaborate initials and a decorated red border around their first text.

note:After the texts for the final Sunday in ordinary time on f. 317r, Finis de tempore is written, but antiphons are added for Holy Week.
Sanctorale

extent:ff. 321r-448r

rubric: In festo Beatissimi Patris Nostri Dominici. Ad vesperas super psalmum. Antiphona.

incipit: Gaude felix Parens hispania

explicit: salutare Dei nostri

decoration:Each verse begins with an initial in red. Antiphons are begun in large, typically Spanish initials. Some feasts have larger, more elaborate initials and a decorated red border around their first text.

note:The Sanctorale includes texts for the feasts of Dominic, Augustine, Andrew, Vincent and others.

Date of origin:A title page (f. 18r) provides the date of 1618.

Place of origin: Vilafranca del Pened�s, Spain

Support: Paper codex.

Foliation:Numbered in ink in a contemporary hand in the upper right corner of each leaf to f. 12. Numbered in lead in a modern hand in the upper right corner of each leaf after f. 17.

Dimensions:409mm x 287mm (leaves)

Collation:1¹⁶ 2¹² 3¹⁶ (-1, -2, -3, -4) 4-8¹⁶ 9¹⁶ (-16) 10¹² 11¹⁶ 12¹⁴ (-1) 13²⁰ 14-18¹⁶ 19¹⁴ 20¹⁶ 21¹⁴ 22-25¹⁶ 26¹⁴ 27¹⁸ 28¹⁶ (-13, -14, -15, -16) 29¹² (-1, -2, -3, -4) 30¹²

Script:The text is in a gothic with some rotunda characteristics in at least 11 hands. The first seventeen leaves are in a humanist minuscule. Handshifts occur after the following folia: 17v, 28v, 30v, 88v, 148r, 319r, 326v, 366v, 424r, and 428r.

Binding:Bound in contemporary deerskin over heavy boards with five metal bosses on the front and back covers and metal guards on the top and bottom edges.

Additions:There are corrections and additions in contemporary and slightly later hands. Some of the music notation has been altered.

Provenance:The texts indicate that the manuscript was in Dominican use. The title page mentions that it was for the house of St. Raymond, presumably the convent of St. Raymond de Pe�afort in Vilafranca del Pened�s, Spain.

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