Gradual and Breviary, Use of Brescia — 11th century, later – 12th century, early, with 12th century additions; Italian, Brescia, cathedral church

Title

Gradual and Breviary, Use of Brescia — 11th century, later – 12th century, early, with 12th century additions; Italian, Brescia, cathedral church

Shelfmark

MS. Canon. Liturg. 366

Place of origin

Italian, Brescia, cathedral church

Date

11th century, later – 12th century, early, with 12th century additions

Language

Latin

Contents

Form

codex

Support

parchment

Physical extent

i + 284 + i fol.

Hands

Written by at least 4 different hands.

Decoration

Initials. Fols. 276–84 addition of 12th century. The note on fol. 284v, 'Presbiter Ofredus et Mancafaxia frater ... hunc fecere librum', is of 13th century. (Pächt and Alexander ii. 21)

Large initials (fols. 1v, 22, 39v, etc.). Plain red capitals, some slightly ornamental (fols. 135v, 136, 139v, 143, 147, 155v, 184v, 198v, etc.); spaces left for large initials (fols. 1v, 22, 39v, etc.).

Musical notation

Adiastematic non-rhythmical North Italian neums.

Provenance

The books can be ascribed to the cathedral because of rubrics on fol. 20, 21v, 22.

The note: Presbiter Ofredus et Mancafaxia fratres. Quos de Giuberto peperit patre Florida mater. Hunc fecere librum. Memor esto (fol. 284v) occurs on the last leaf of the additional quire and does not refer to the main part of the volume. The other additions (on 1, 284v) do.

Bought by Magister Paulus from Guiscard, bishop of Bergamo (1272–80), fol. 1

Given by Paulus to Petrus de Cavacenis, priest of the church of St Mary, Vertova, 1298, fol. 284v.

Seems later to have belonged to the church 'sancti Stephani de Gropella'.

Title

Two Latin MSS.

Shelfmark

MS. Canon. Liturg. 366

Summary

Fol. 1v. A Gradual. The 'dedicatio ecclesie' (fol. 24v) is at the beginning of May

Fol. 39. A Breviary of the use of Brescia, with musical notes. The Brescian connexion is shown in the account of stt. Apollonius and Filastrus on fol. 194v, etc. On blank leaves (fols. 30v, 37, 38, 193) is written 'Epistola Domini nostri Ihesu Christi descendens de celo super altare s. Petri in Ierusalem scripta in tabulis marmoreis ...', beg. 'Quod uidistis filii hominum prius mandaui uobis.'

Date

Written in the 11th century in Italy, by four scribes, see below

Language

Latin

Physical facet

On parchment

Physical extent

285 Leaves

Custodial history

Among the many notes of ownership and entries, some erased or half erased, are the following:

'Presbiter Ofredus & Mancafaxia fratres. Quos de Guiberto peperit patre Florida mater. Hunc fecere librum. Memor esto qui legis ipsum. Vt rex celorum sit gloria quatuor horam' (11th cent.: this is probably sufficient to account for the diversity of hands and signatures in the two parts of this MS.)

'Ego magister Paulus emi hunc librum de domino Guiscardo episcopo de Suardis Pergamensis [bp. of Bergamo, 1272-80]' (cf. fol. 283v ad fin.)

'Iste liber est Petri clerici de Verto[u]a, qui olim fuit magistri Pauli de Gualteriis de Verto[u]a quando iuit Romam dedit ei in anno Domini currente [?] Mo ducentesimo nonagesimo Octo'

'Iste liber est Petri de Cauacenis clerici ecclesie domine S. Marie de Verto[u]a'

'Iste liber est de ecclesia sancti Stephani de cpello.'