Liturgy

Overview ff. 1r-136v Feria iiii in capite iieuniidum cineres ponuntur. Inc.: Exaudi nos domine quoniam benigna est misericordia tua secundum multitudinem miserationum... Expl.: Exaltatio sancte crucis. Hymnus. Crux fidelis inter omnes arbor una//Gradual, with masses from Ash Wednesday through the liturgy for Good Friday, ends incompletely in the Crux Fidelis. Leaves have been excised between ff. 45 and 46; text missing from Wednesday in the second week of Lent, breaking off in the Introit...

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This is a late sixteenth-century Spanish liturgical psalter. It contains the Psalms of the Sunday Office of Matins through None with antiphons and responses throughout the year. There is musical notation for the Te Deum and for the Hymns, antiphons, and responses at Prime and Terce.

Overview This is a French breviary from the fourth quarter of the fifteenth century.Table of contents: Calendar of Poitiers; Temporal from Advent through the 23rd Sunday after Pentecost; Common of the Dedication of a Church; Sequuntur suffragia quae dicuntur in Ecclesia Pictavensi; Sequuntur benedictiones dicendae ad matutinas per annum; Liturgical Psalter begins incompletely in Psalm 1; Canticles: Benedicite omnia opera, Te Deum, Magnificat, Nunc dimittis; Litany with prayers; Prayers...

Overview This is a mid-fourteenth-century French manuscript, which contains the text of Giles of Rome's De regimine principum, as well as a table of the chapters for Book II, part 2 through Book III, part 2 and the Office of Saint Catherine. There is one seven-line historiated pink initial on a blue background, with blue and red acanthus leaves extending along the inner margin, showing a three quarter portrait, possibly of the author, clad in his black Augustinian robes presenting a book. The initial...

Overview This is a fifteenth- or sixteenth century breviary from Northern Europe.Table of contents: Graded Franciscan Calendar; Temporal from Advent through the fourth Sunday of November; General rubrics; In nomine Domini incipit benedictio aquae secundum ordinem romanae curiae; Psalter; Canticles and Prayers; Litany with prayers; Hymns for Vespers, Matins, and Lauds for the Temporal and the Sanctoral; Incipit ordo ad benedicendam mensam per totum annum; Ordo ad communicandum infirmum;...

Overview This is an Italian manuscript from the fourth quarter of the fifteenth century that contains miscellaneous liturgical texts including: various prayers, both in Latin and Italian, including a prayer by Thomas Aquinas and prayers at the Elevation of the Host; the Office of Saint Catherine; The Mass in honor of Mary; the Beginning of John's Gospel; and the Athanasian Creed. There are five full illuminated borders (fols. 1, 12, 51, 70v, and 71) probably added in the eighteenth century. An early...

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This is a German missal from about the fourteenth century, which includes a Cantus; the Blessing of the Paschal Candle with the Litany; the Blessing of the Candle; the Order for the Feast of the Purification of the Blessed Virgin Mary and the Blessing of the Candles; the Order for the Blessing of the Branches on Palm Sunday; and the Blessing of Salt and Water with the Litany.

Overview Sisters of the kings of France, the author Christine de Pizan, and Balzac’s droll fictitious heroines – these are among the residents of the prestigious royal foundation of the Dominican nuns at Poissy. Every manuscript that becomes known from Poissy is worthy of special note not just because of the fame of the abbey but also because of the contribution of its women to late medieval liturgical music. Whereas Processionals survive in increasingly large numbers from Poissy, Sequentiaries, such...