Vespers etc
- Description
- Antiphonary with chants for the Catholic evening service of Vespers, notated in square neumes. The antiphons are divided into three categories, roughly following editions of service books for the evening office printed in the 18th century: the Proper for Sundays, chants to be used on Sundays through the year (arranged here according to the calendar year, from Epiphany through Advent); the Common of saints, chants to be used for the feasts of saints of various categories (martyr, confessor, bishop, virgin) who do not have specific antiphons in the third category; and chants for the feasts of a few particular saints (a very limited number here compared to the printed editions, arranged here starting at Christmas and breaking off at the Feast of Saint John the Baptist (June 24)). Only antiphons and hymns appear in the manuscript, with notes for the psalm tones to be used for the Vespers psalms (109, Dixit Dominus; 110, Confitebor; 111, Beatus vir; 112, Laudate pueri; and 113, In exitu Israel) and the Magnificat. The paper of gatherings 1-4 and the last two leaves is cream-colored; the paper of gatherings 5-12 and the first leaf of gathering 13 is coarser and has a slight blue or green tinge, but the ruling is consistent throughout.
- Creator
- Catholic Church
- Form
- manuscripts (documents)
- codices (bound manuscripts)
- Antiphonaries (Service books)
- Gregorian chants
- Manuscripts, European
- Date
- 1760
- Language
- English
- Latin
- Subject
- Catholic Church -- England -- Liturgy -- Texts
- Catholic Church -- England -- History -- 18th century -- Sources
- Vespers (Music) -- England -- Early works to 1800
- Geographic Subject
- England -- Church history -- 18th century -- Sources
- Collection
- Otto E. Albrecht Memorial Fund
- Faye and Gerson Blatnick Special Collections Fund
- Extent
- 75 leaves : paper ; 255 x 190 (235 x 173) mm bound to 260 x 200 mm.
- Notes
- Ms. codex.
- English, with Latin chant texts.
- Title from title page (p. iii).
- Table of contents: 1. p.1-41: [Proper for Sundays] -- 2. p.42-72: [Common of saints] -- 3. p.72-106: [Proper for the feasts of saints (incomplete)].
- Collation: Paper, i + 75 leaves; 1-12⁶ 13⁶⁻³(-4, -5, -6); contemporary pagination in ink, modern pagination in pencil, [i-iv], 1-146 (107-146 blank), upper outer corners. The first recto and last verso of each gathering are marked with a 4 in ink, lower center.
- Layout: Written in up to seven four-line staves with chant texts below; staves and vertical bounding lines ruled in red ink; horizontals for text without chants ruled in lead; quarto format.
- Script: Written in a cursive script by multiple hands, possibly three (p. 1-9, 9-72, 72-106), and square neumes (filled p. 1-73, outlined p. 73-105).
- Binding: Contemporary (18th-century) quarter sheep with paste paper over boards; minor damage to leather at head of spine
- Origin: Probably written in England, circa 1760 (Gedge).
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Otto E. Albrecht Memorial Fund.
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Faye and Gerson Blatnick Special Collections Fund.
- Related works
- Digital facsimile for browsing (Colenda)
- The Faye and Gerson Blatnick Special Collections Fund Home Page
- The Otto E. Albrecht Memorial Fund Home Page
- Also listed in
- Penn Libraries Catalog
- Physical Location
- Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Ms. Codex 2054
- Provenance
- Sold by Samuel Gedge Ltd. (Hanworth, England), Firsts Online catalog (2020 September 10-14), number 9.
- Rights
- http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
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