Office Lectionary — 1452; Italian, Florence
MS. Canon. Liturg. 379
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Description
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Title
Office Lectionary — 1452; Italian, Florence
Breviary — c. 1300; Italian
Shelfmark
MS. Canon. Liturg. 379
Associated place
Italian
Place of origin
Italian
Italian, Florence
Date
c. 1300
1452
Language
Latin
Contents
Form
codex
Support
parchment
Musical notation
Notation on staves (see van Dijk 1957).
Binding
18th century, after 1722, Italian, either an archaizing binding all of that date, or a major resewing and rebind incorporating elements from an earlier binding; each of the two parts (from the church of S. Miniato fra le Torri, Florence) had lost leaves at its end before this binding’s resewing. Wood boards, outside edges rounded; brown leather, blind-tooled with multiple lines and a thin roll to form an empty central panel; spine plain except for quadruple lines around the five cords, no label; no clear signs of clasps; traces of 4+1 large circular bosses on each cover, all lost; endleaf watermarks dated 1722; edges stained yellow. 367–368 234–237 c. 63 (book closed).
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Title
'...Antiphonarium per totum anni circulum secundum morem Romane ecclesie'
Shelfmark
MS. Canon. Liturg. 379
Summary
'...Antiphonarium per totum anni circulum secundum morem Romane ecclesie', consisting of:
A Proprium de Tempore (fol. 21)
A Proprium ('festiuitates') Sanctorum (fol. 125: incomplete, Nov. 30-Sept. 29 only)
The first twenty leaves (originally fols. 1-42, but fols. 21-42 are lost) consist of:
A calendar (fol. 1)
Services for Trinity Sunday, Corpus Christi and st. Miniato (Minias), and (fol. 16v) '... Lectionarium ... secundum consuetudinem Romane curie. scriptum per Leonardum Francisci de Orto. d. d. rectorem ecclesie sancti Miniatis inter turres de Florentia pro ipsa ecclesia. et quia alter liber eiusdem ecclesie. erat prolixius huiusmodi ordinis solum conscriptus. quantum potui In isto uolumine breuius mea propria manu scripsi. anno Domini. 1452. mensis Decembris die nona nona [sic] ...': imperfect
At fol. i is a letter about the MS. from G. Fabris to Canonici, Oct. 28 (late 18th cent.).
Date
Written chiefly in about A.D. 1400 in Italy
Language
Latin
Physical facet
On parchment, in double columns
Physical extent
166 Leaves
Custodial history
There are two floriated borders and a miniature on fols. 9, 13, and two coats of arms: (1) azure an eagle's leg erased argent (?), unguled gules: (2) or on a fess gules three crescents argent. 'Liber iste est sancti Miniatis inter turres de Flore[n]tia' (15th cent., on fol. 21).
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Collection contents
Canonici Liturgical
'...Antiphonarium per totum anni circulum secundum morem Romane ecclesie'
