Troper, Proser, Offertorial — 11th century, end; Italian, Breme-Novalesa, Benedictine abbey

Title

Troper, Proser, Offertorial — 11th century, end; Italian, Breme-Novalesa, Benedictine abbey

Shelfmark

MS. Douce 222

Place of origin

Italian, Breme-Novalesa, Benedictine abbey

Date

11th century, end

Language

Latin

Contents

Form

codex

Support

parchment

Physical extent

ii + 2 + i + 207 + 2 + i fol.

Hands

At least 8 or 9 different scribes.

Decoration

Fine initials (fols. 2v, 6, 18v, 102.). (Pächt and Alexander ii. 17, pl. II)

Musical notation

North Italian diastematic, non rhythmical notation throughout with some Notker letters. In the offertorial and on the following leaves the notation shows evident visigothic (Spanish) influence.

Acquisition

Bequeathed by Douce to the Bodleian.

Provenance

Given by the abbot of Novalesa in 1778 to the liturgical scholar Eugenio de Levis, who described it in his Anecdota Sacra (1789).

Hyacinthe Louis de Quélen, archbishop of Paris (1819–1840).

Taken from his house in the riot of July 1830 and in February 1832 acquired for Francis Douce (see MS. Douce e. 88 fol. 20v).

Title

A Tropary, with sequences and other musical parts of the Mass, with musical notes

Shelfmark

MS. Douce 222

Summary

Long lists of saints occur at fols. 70, 71v, 72v, 75v: a Prosary begins at fol. 82: the end is lost, and fol. 207 is rather later than the rest.

A note of the 18th cent. suggests that the mentions of st. Heldrad (fols. 71, 78) point to Novalaise in Piedmont. A facsimile of fol. 102 is in the printed catal. of 1840. [I venture to append to the present volume the results of a special examination of this MS. E.W.B.N.].

Date

written in the 11th cent. in North Italy

Language

Latin

Physical facet

On parchment, with some illuminated capitals

Physical extent

210 Leaves