Detail View: Medieval Document Collection: Processional

Identifier: 
exws_nb_ms001_bk
Manuscript Identifier: 
Newberry / WMU MS 1
Title: 
Processional
Alternative Title: 
Newberry Library. Manuscript. Case MS 155
Alternative Title: 
Western Michigan University / Newberry Library. Joint Purchase. MS 1
Incipit: 
Vidi aquam egredientem de templo, a latere dextro, alleluia. Et omnes quos pervenit aqua ista, salvi facti sunt, et dicent, alleluia, alleluia
Author: 
Catholic Church
Origin Date: 
ca. 1250
Origin Location: 
Spain
Description: 
Processional, transcribed in Spain, containing music primarily for chants for the Temporale. Music in diastematic Aquitianian notation with Latin verse. Music included celebrates feasts of the four Sundays of Advent; the Sunday following the octave of Epiphany to Palm Sunday, inclusive; Ascension; Pentecost through the sixth Sunday after Trinity; and a Commemoration for the Virgin. There is also a “Gloria, laus, et honor” hymn and a group of Marian antiphons. Large initials between each procession. Decorated catchwords at the end of gatherings.
Provenance: 
Country of production suggested by instructions in Spanish on recto and verso of f. 61; verso of first parchment guard leaf contains ownership inscription “Alfonso Lopez.” Stamp reading “Newberry Library” on f. 1 verso. Joint purchase by Western Michigan University and the Newberry Library in 1996.
Explicit: 
Eii heu domine eheu heu salvator noster
Secundo Folio: 
Asperges me domine hyssopo po et mundabor lavabis me et super muende alba
Extent: 
83 unnumbered leaves, bound
Subject: 
Catholic Church--Liturgy--Texts--Early works to 1800
Subject: 
Processionals (Service books)
Subject: 
Manuscripts, Latin
Subject: 
Decorated initials
Language: 
lat
Dimensions: 
260 x 190 mm
Material: 
parchment
Foliation: 
ff. 1v-83r
Binding: 
Modern limp vellum binding, with two pairs of fastening vellum ties.
Decoration Description: 
Large red and purple initials with blue and red pen flourishes.
Description of Hands: 
Written in Gothic Textura script.
Musical Notation: 
One line red staff with square black notation. Square notation on four line staff on leaves 79 and 80. Five staff on last gathering.
Is Part Of: 
Newberry Library
Is Part Of: 
Medieval Document Collection
Publisher: 
Western Michigan University
Date-Issued: 
2019
Type: 
Text
Format: 
image/jp2
Is Referenced By: 
Newberry Library. “Processional.” Newberry Online Catalog. https://i-share.carli.illinois.edu/vf-nby/Record/NBYdb.182880 (accessed: July 29, 2019).
Rights: 
No copyright. Digital access provided by Western Michigan University Libraries.