[Gregorian chant leaves]

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Three excised leaves from an antiphoner with chants in Latin for Second Vespers from feasts connected with the Virgin Mary, and for the Feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, on paper; 28 lines ruled in black ink: 4-line staves, 7 staves per leaf, square notation, custodes with extremely long tails are used; textualis rotunda script in black ink, rubrics in red. 13 4-line decorative initials in red ink; acidic black ink used has eaten through the paper in many places; folios 63 and 65 contain light water damage evidenced by the staining and blurring of ink; foliation on each leaves: script Arabic numerals in black ink (perhaps in a later hand?), right-hand top corner, recto side.
Folio 63: Chants from the Second Vespers of Mary. Recto: [Antiphon: Fili quid fecisti nobis sic; Magnificat]; Verso: In festo visit. b. m. ad vesp. [Antiphon: Exurgens Maria abiit in montana ... ; Psalm: Dixit Domino; Antiphon: Intravit Maria in domum zacharie; Psalm: Laud[ate] p[ueri]; Antiphon: Ut audivit salutatione Marie (cont'd on top of folio 64) -- Folio 64. Recto: [Psalm: Letatus [sum]; Antiphon: Benedicta tu inter mulieres ... ; Psalm: Nisi do[minus]; Antiphon: Ex quo facta est vox (cont'd on verso); Verso: [Psalm: Lauda Je[rusalem] -- Folio 65: In b. m. vir. de. m. carm. Recto: [Antiphon: Gloria libani data est; Magn[ificat]; In festo ss. angel. custodem ad vesperas. [Antiphon: Angelis suis deus mandavit; Psalm: Dixit do[minus]; Antiphon: Laudem[us] dominu[m] que laudat angeli; Psalm: Confit[ebor]; Antiphon: Angeli eoru[m] semper vident ... ; Psalm: Beatus; Verso: [Antiphon: Benedictus deus qui misit ... ; Psalm: Laud[ate] p[ueri]; Antiphon: Laudate deu[m] omnes angeli; Psalm: Laud[ate] d[ominum]; Hymn: Custodes Hominum [incipit only].
Title supplied by cataloger.
From an antiphoner, copied for Carmelite usage some time after 1580.
Description and dating based on Nathan David Bowers, "A Previously Unknown Carmelite Antiphoner Fragment in the University of Pittsburgh Music Library (M.A. thesis, University of Pittsburgh, 2002).
The content of the leaves is presented in sequence, from 63 to 65, according to the foliation given in the top right-hand corner on the recto of each manuscript leaf.
Theodore M. Finney; Gift; 1972.

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Note: Title supplied by cataloger.
From an antiphoner, copied for Carmelite usage some time after 1580.
Description and dating based on Nathan David Bowers, "A Previously Unknown Carmelite Antiphoner Fragment in the University of Pittsburgh Music Library (M.A. thesis, University of Pittsburgh, 2002).
The content of the leaves is presented in sequence, from 63 to 65, according to the foliation given in the top right-hand corner on the recto of each manuscript leaf.
Title: [Gregorian chant leaves]. MS 2
Contributor: University of Pittsburgh (depositor)
Identifier: 20210104-pittms2
Description: Three excised leaves from an antiphoner with chants in Latin for Second Vespers from feasts connected with the Virgin Mary, and for the Feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, on paper; 28 lines ruled in black ink: 4-line staves, 7 staves per leaf, square notation, custodes with extremely long tails are used; textualis rotunda script in black ink, rubrics in red. 13 4-line decorative initials in red ink; acidic black ink used has eaten through the paper in many places; folios 63 and 65 contain light water damage evidenced by the staining and blurring of ink; foliation on each leaves: script Arabic numerals in black ink (perhaps in a later hand?), right-hand top corner, recto side.
Folio 63: Chants from the Second Vespers of Mary. Recto: [Antiphon: Fili quid fecisti nobis sic; Magnificat]; Verso: In festo visit. b. m. ad vesp. [Antiphon: Exurgens Maria abiit in montana ... ; Psalm: Dixit Domino; Antiphon: Intravit Maria in domum zacharie; Psalm: Laud[ate] p[ueri]; Antiphon: Ut audivit salutatione Marie (cont'd on top of folio 64) -- Folio 64. Recto: [Psalm: Letatus [sum]; Antiphon: Benedicta tu inter mulieres ... ; Psalm: Nisi do[minus]; Antiphon: Ex quo facta est vox (cont'd on verso); Verso: [Psalm: Lauda Je[rusalem] -- Folio 65: In b. m. vir. de. m. carm. Recto: [Antiphon: Gloria libani data est; Magn[ificat]; In festo ss. angel. custodem ad vesperas. [Antiphon: Angelis suis deus mandavit; Psalm: Dixit do[minus]; Antiphon: Laudem[us] dominu[m] que laudat angeli; Psalm: Confit[ebor]; Antiphon: Angeli eoru[m] semper vident ... ; Psalm: Beatus; Verso: [Antiphon: Benedictus deus qui misit ... ; Psalm: Laud[ate] p[ueri]; Antiphon: Laudate deu[m] omnes angeli; Psalm: Laud[ate] d[ominum]; Hymn: Custodes Hominum [incipit only].
Title supplied by cataloger.
From an antiphoner, copied for Carmelite usage some time after 1580.
Description and dating based on Nathan David Bowers, "A Previously Unknown Carmelite Antiphoner Fragment in the University of Pittsburgh Music Library (M.A. thesis, University of Pittsburgh, 2002).
The content of the leaves is presented in sequence, from 63 to 65, according to the foliation given in the top right-hand corner on the recto of each manuscript leaf.
Theodore M. Finney; Gift; 1972.
Language: lat
Extent: 1 score ([3] leaves) ; 28 x 42 cm
Type of Resource: text
Genre: manuscripts (documents)
Subject: Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint
Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint
--Feasts
Carmelites
Gregorian chants
Music--Manuscripts
Antiphonaries
Vespers (Music)
Depositing Institution: University of Pittsburgh

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