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Antiphonal

Chants for Monday of Holy Week

F-zd30

Victoria, B.C., University of Victoria Libraries, BV4213.A551757

Ella Reedman, University of Victoria, 2023 (Born Digital)

Remarks by the Editor

This description was created as part of a manuscripts studies course taught at the University of Victoria by Prof. Adrienne Williams Boyarin (Fall 2023). 

General Information

Title Antiphonal
Shelfmarks BV4213.A551757
Page/Folio Reference binding
Material Parchment
Place of Origin France?
Date of Origin 1201-1300?
Script, Hands

Northern Textualis
General Remarks

Antiphonal fragment used as binding wrapper for host volume printed in Leon, 1757. Fragment includes chants for the Monday of Holy Week, including Faciem meam non averti (Cantus ID 002833) and Framea suscitare adversus eos (Cantus ID 002893).

Original Condition

Page Height 210 – 420 mm
Page Width 200 – 250 mm
Height of Written Area 165 – 330 mm
Width of Written Area 200 – 230 mm
Number of Columns 1
Line Height 25 – 30 mm

Current Condition

Dimensions 165mm x 210 mm
More about the Current Condition

Very worn parchment, discoloured to a dark brown, serves a outer cover of binding boards and spine. Missing letters on left side (front cover of host volume) indicate original leaf was considerably wider. Main text and decorative letters are in black ink, liturgical instructions in red, additional details in green. Black ink is still very visible, but coloured ink (red and green) is fading.

Book Decoration and Musical Notation

  • Musical Notation

    First two staffs are breve notes, square notation characteristic of Europe in the thirteenth and fourteenth centures. Third staff shows diamond-shaped mensural notation, indicating semibreve note value. Three staffs total. 

    • Content

    • Content Item
      • Text Language Latin
      • Title Proper Chants for Monday of Holy Week
      • Content Description

        Antiphons used in mass on Monday of Holy Week (i.e., Monday in the week before Easter): Faciem meam non averti ab, followed by psalm beginning Deus in nomine (likely Psalm 53:3?), and the antiphon Framea suscitare adversos eos.
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    History

    Origin

    France? 

    Host Volume

    Title Nouvelles observations sur les différentes méthodes de precher: avec un recueil de tous les prédicateurs qui ont prêchés l’Avent & le Carême devant Leurs Majestés Louis XIV & Louis XV
    Date of Origin/Publication 1757
    Place of Origin/Publication Leon, France/Ponthus
    Shelfmark BV4213.A551757

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