Medieval Studies 205. Introduction to Manuscripts--Fall 1998
Liturgical Manuscripts--Mary Kay Duggan, UC Berkeley
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- 1. The Medieval Liturgical Day, adapted from John Harper, The Forms and Orders
of Western Liturgy from the tenth to the eighteenth century: A Historical Introduction and Guide for
Students and Musicians (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1991), Fig. 3.I, p. 47.
- 2. The Liturgical Year, with cycles of the Temporale and Sanctorale, adapted
from Harper, Fig. 3.2, p. 48.
- 3. Graduale Romanum. Fol. xviii. [Parma? 1450; for the Benedictine monastery
of Santa Giustina?] Personal library, M.K. Duggan.
- 4. Notated Breviary.
Camaldoli, Italy, Incipit, with colophon of Simon of Genova (d. 1192).
- 5. Graduale. Fol. 236. St. Gall, 1512. Wurttembergische
Landesbibliothek, Cod. mus. I.
- 6. Graduale. Fol. 236. St. Gall, 1512. Detail.
- 7. Antiphonale. Matthias Corwin's Bibliotheca Corviniana.
- 8. Raster for drawing staves. Printer's mark, Matijs Bastiaense, Rotterdam, 1614.
- 9. Noted Breviary.
MS 752, Music Library, UCB. Camaldoli, Italy; late 13th cent. Calendar, April, May, June.
- 10. Noted Breviary.
MS 752, Music Library, UCB. Calendar, July, August, September
- 10a. Noted Breviary. MS 752,
Music Library, UCB. 365 x
240mm. 11-12 staves of 2 to 5 lines. Rules in lead on the hair side of skin. Music
Library, MS 752 (UC Berkeley). Initials (65; never historiated) for first word of Sunday offices.
- 10b. Noted Breviary. MS 752,
Music Library, UCB. Fol. Layout, staves drawn as needed, with as many lines as needed,
text in margin for illuminator. Hierarchy of
scripts. Some rubrics underlined in red.
- 10c. Noted Breviary, f. 149.
Litany.
- 11. Graduale.
Diocese of Utrecht, [1440-1470].
Small (206 x 145), water-colored initials, pasted-on paintings.
- 12. Graduale.
Diocese of Utrecht [1440-1470. Some rubrics in Dutch.
- 13. Graduale. Plimpton MS 040a,
Columbia University. Fol. 1 verso (single leaf). Unfinished initials G, T. Psalm abbreviation misplaced.
- 14. Psalterium. Germany, [c.1450]. Very large. Leipzig: Deutsche
Bucherei.
- 15. Psalterium. Psalterium. Cologne: Conrad Winters, 1482.
Illuminated in England. New York Public Library, *KB1482.
- 16. Antiphonale. Kornik, Poland, Castle Library, [c.1450].
Illuminator: Jan Wlodarek.
- 17. Grandes Heures, Duc Jean de Berry. [c.1409] Vigil of the
Dead.
- 18. Psalter, Henry VII. Dominican nuns in choir. Psalter of King Henry VI
(1421-1471) as a boy. British
Library, Cotton MS A-XVII, f. 14v.
- 19. Secular liturgy, court of Francis I of France. Title woodcut, Primus liber
viginti missarum. Paris: Attaingnant, 1532.
- 20. Chant scripts. Leaf at back of Psallite sapienter. Fragmente liturgischer
Handschriften aus der Bibliothek des Wilhelmsstiftes Tubingen, ed. Stefan Klockner, Wilsingen: Tre
Fontane, 1990.
- 21. Regional use of chant scripts, c.1450". Map 1. From Mary Kay
Duggan, Italian Music
Incunabula, Berkeley: University of California Press.
- 22. Graduale. Plimpton MS 040B,
Columbia University. Fol. 1 recto (single leaf). Introit, Feast of St. Agatha (Feb. 5). 5 staves per page,
3-stave historiated initial.
- 23. Graduale. Plimpton MS 040B,
Columbia University. Fol. 1 verso (single leaf).
- 24. Graduale. Plimpton MS 040a,
fol. 1 recto. Third quarter of XVth cent. 540 x 382. For secular canons (blue-vested; S. Giorgio in Alga; their
Brescian house is commonly called S. Pietro in Oliveto), Brescia (?). Rubrics for Nativity of SS.
Peter and Paul. Double of 1st class, June 29th. I's missing! Quilisma. Foliation in right margin.
- 25. Antiphonarium. Plimpton MS 040C,
f. CVI. First quarter XIVth cent. St. John before the Latin gate. I in blue, flourished. Rubrics.
- 26. Graduale. Plimpton 040C,
f. XXIII. XIIIth, [Genoa?]. 465 x 330mm. Text ruled in lead. "Tollite portas"
- 27. Graduale. Plimpton 040C.
Annunciation (2-stave initial). Interesting layout.
- 28. Antiphonarium. Plimpton 040H.
[Venice, XVex] 568 x 420. Layout, scribe did cadelled initials. Even ruling for staves, rubrics, chant text.
Did scribe put in the initial himself? Chant underlay weak. Late, static.
- 29. Antiphonarium. Plimpton 040H.
[Venice, XVex] Initials crowded out. Scratched off bottom line to fit?
- 30. Antiphonarium. Plimpton 040H.
Layout by scribe, shows ruling and red lines (not raster). Added line below staff 4. Space neatly left for
rubrics (done by scribe?) and initials (last line I before text!).
- 31. Psalterium. 621 x 458mm.
Folio 4, "Beatus vir" with some portion of fol. 3 verso visible to see the antiphons and psalms to use with
Psalm 1. This is a replacement leaf without a major initial.
- 32. Psalterium. Typographical MS 2.
Image of fool
incorrectly places with psalm 7 "Dixit insipiens" instead of the first psalm of Wednesday, Psalm 52, another
"Dixit insipiens."
- 33. Psalterium. Florence,
attributed to Attavante degli Attavanti, XVth cent.
Typographical MS 2. 1st psalm of Monday, Psalm 26 "Dominus illuminatio." David kneeling in field.
- 34. Psalterium. Psalm 7
with preceding antiphons, 1st psalm of Prime, Tuesday. Good psalter layout.
- 35. Missal. Plimpton
MS 035. [Verona?], 1313. Carmelite. Crucifixion.
- 36. Missal. Plimpton MS
035. [Verona?], 1313. Carmelite. 248 x 188mm. Canon, "Te igitur." Faces Crucifixion.
- 37. Missal. Plimpton
MS 035. Music leaf, ruled across, written in two columns.
- 38. Missal. Plimpton
MS 035. Incipit leaf (f. 4). Incipit scratched. Good typology. 2 miniatures, 7-line initials, 2-line
flourished.
- 39. Graduale.
Music Library MS 748, UCB. 206 x 145. 369 ff.
Diocese of Utrecht, c. 1450. Dutch rubrics. Paper, with parchment inserted for pasted-on decorative
squares. Gothic cursive, Hufnagelschrift. Intonation marked off in red.
- 40. Graduale.
Diocese of Utrecht, c. 1450. Decorated pages, Ascension ("Viri Galilei").
- 41. Ordo Breviarium.
Mainz, Cathedral of St. Martin, c.1450. UCB MS 027, Bancroft. Cursive, chained binding.
- 42. Missale for Bremen. [before 1503] Universitatsbibliothek Greifswald.
4-line staves, C in red. Hufnagel notation. Incipits in blue; red rubrics. Foliation at top. Date at top.
- 43. Novice reading. Choirstall, Bamberg Cathedral. 15th cent. Destroyed in WWII.
- 44. Antiphonarium. Cologne, 1350.
Kungl. Bibliotheket, Cod. Holm. A 172, fol. 1 verso.
Soror Ysabela, the scribe.
- 45. Choirbook. 1517. Czech. Okresni vlastivedne muzeum Litomerice.
Variant form of gothic chant notation, "Byzantine".
- 46. Psalter. Cologne: Winters, 1482. Paris, BN, Res. B2787, f. 27verso.
Tuesday, matins, Psalm 38, Dixi custodiam.
- 47. Antiphonarium. XVth cent. Douai, Bibl. Mun. Lead ruling, out for foliation.
Raster-drawn staves, crooked. Elaborate highlighting.
- 48. Missal. [Central Italy, 1472?] Newberry Library, Chicago.
Outline of Class