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Antiphoner: MS 371

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Current Location: In storage

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Antiphoner

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Description

PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Parchment, iii paper flyleaves (first one a pastedown) + 204 fols. + iii paper flyleaves, 306 x 214 mm (228 x 155 mm), 10 four-line musical staves ruled in red ink, 10 text line ruled in hard point, quire numbers in Roman numerals in position of catchwords.

BINDING: Nineteenth century, brown leather and cloth over wooden boards, lettered on spine ANTIPHONALE CARTHUS. SAEC. XIV

CONTENTS
fols. 1r - 5r Musical settings for the Venite beginning imperfectly, me patres vestri probaverunt (Psalm 94:9)
fols. 5r - 147v Temporal from the First Sunday of Advent to the Last Sunday after Pentecost
fols. 147v - 174v Sanctoral for the main feasts from the Nativity of St John the Baptist (24 June) to the Conception of the Virgin (8 Dec.), with fifteenth- to seventeenth-century additions to the music on fols. 21v, 22v, 58r, 64r, 75r, 115r, 123v
fols. 174v - 198r Common of the Saints
fols. 198r - 199r Gregorian tones for the Gloria, Psalms and Benedictus
fol. 199v Musical settings for Nos autem gloriari, Tota pulchra es, Inter natos mulierum
fols. 199v - 201v Antiphons for Saints Hugh of Grenoble, Ambrose, Benedict, and for the Annunciation
fols. 202r - 202v Table of feasts of saints in the Carthusian Calendar with a template for showing the day of the week on which they fall by means of holes pierced in columns of red and yellow chequers, and a thread passing through the holes (compare Fitzwilliam MS 37 where a Latin text explains how such a device is used)
fols. 203 - 203v Added antiphons for the feast of the 11,000 Virgins introduced in 1352 (ends imperfectly in Lauds)

ORNAMENTATION: Red, blue, green and brown penwork initials [2-4 musical staves and 2-4 text ll.] with parti-coloured stems, fleuronné infill and surrounds of flowers, foliage leaves and scrolls, and ornamental patterns, with pen-flourished extensions in the side margins (e.g. fols. 5v, 101v, 116v, 125v); red penwork initials [1-2 musical staves and 1-2 text ll.]; decorative penwork band of foliage ornament for the table on fol. 202v.

Notes

History note: Frank Brangwyn (1867-1956), RA (his signature on second paper flyleaf at front)

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Given (1935) by Brangwyn, Frank

Dating

14th Century, Mid
Circa 1341 CE - Circa 1352 CE

People, subjects and objects depicted

Project

  • Cambridge Illuminated

Materials used in production

Gold

Components of the work

Support composed of parchment

Techniques used in production

Illumination

Inscription or legends present

  • Text: sicut erat in principio
  • Type: Secundo folio

References and bibliographic entries

Identification numbers

Accession number: MS 371
Primary reference Number: 182087
Project ID: 1971
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Audit data

Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Monday 24 August 2020 Last processed: Friday 8 December 2023

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Manuscripts and Printed Books

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