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Title
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Procesionale [Book of Gregorian chant] |
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I. Identification
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Signature
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LMAB RS F 22-95 |
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Preserver
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Manuscript Department |
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Institution
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Library of the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences |
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State
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Republic of Lithuania |
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II. Description
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Author
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Unknown |
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Language
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Latin |
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Date
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1556 |
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Place of Creation
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Marienpoël |
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III. Physical Description
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1. Form
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Manuscript book |
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2. Document Size
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20,5x13,5 cm |
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3. Material
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Paper, leather, parchment |
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4. Binding
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Brown leather, wood, brass binders. Both hardcovers are decorated with roulette, displaying conventional floral patterns, knight’s portraits and the motto: iustitae, fortis, fides. Plate imprints in the mirrors. |
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5. Number of Folios
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240 folios. Numeration is not original. |
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6. Folio Size
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20,5x13,5 cm |
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7. Text Size
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15,5x10 cm |
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8. Script
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Initials of chants' melodies have lombards in red and blue; verses of responsories and antiphons (singing texts) have black capital letters with filigree penwork (usually women’s portraits, rabbits and cats); hymn strophes start with smaller lombards. The text is written in Hybrida script. |
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9. Scribe
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“Frater Adrianus me scripsit” (Fol. 81r) |
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10. Watermarks
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11. Decoration (Iliumination)
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Each section of the manuscript opens with a multi-coloured initial, mostly showing flowers, berries or figures of birds. Fol. 2r has the initial of letter “a” with the coat-of-arms of the Van Zwieten family: a shield with three fiddles. |
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12. Marginalia
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13. Document Condition
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Good, underwent restoration in 1985. |
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IV. Additional Information
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1. Content
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Folio 2r.: Verbum caro factum est.
Folio 24v.: Gloria laus et honore.
Folio 45r.: Exultet iam angelica.
Folio 51v.: Cum rex Gloria.
Folio 57r.: Discubuit Ihesus et discupuli.
Folios 68v.-69r.: Benedicamus gentio altissimi. [contrapunctus simplex]
Folios 73v.-74r.: In principo erat [contrapunctus simplex]
Folio 74v.: [knowledge of music theory about system of tunes and mensural signs]
Folios 84v.-85r.: Justus germinabit [contrapunctus simplex]
Folio 99r.: Kyrieleison.
Folios 106v.- 107r.: Nicolai solempia. [contrapunctus simplex]
Folio 144r.: Alleluya.
Folio 216v.: Qui incruce positus.
Folio 238v.: Benedicamus Domino. [melodic formulae]
Folio 239v.: [moduses of chants]
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2. Provenance
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“Finis 1556. Ad usum soromis Marie Arnoldie monialis dive virginis Marie and Poel prope Leydam” (Fol. 240v). There is a wafer of unknown origin on the binding back: “…Latin: in noten abgefolgt” [?] |
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3. History
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Earlier the manuscript belonged to Vilnius Public Library. It was brought to Moscow from Vilnius in 1915. In 1946-1952 it was brought to Manuscript Department from USSR National V. I. Lenin Library in Moscow together with other manuscripts that belonged to the collection. |
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4. Publications
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Vilnius, Library of the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences, Department of Manuscripts, F22-95 // ed. by Ike de Loos and Victoria Goncharova. Ottawa, 2003. |
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5. Bibliography
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Goncharova, V. Latin chant manuscripts in Library Collections in the Baltic Countries and the Ukraine // Cantus Planus proceedings of the 6th meeting 1993. Budapest, 1995, pp.321-352. |
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6. Notation
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Gothic form of choir notation close to Hufnagelschrift; mensural notation elements and white mensural notation. |
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7. Authorship
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© Info and Rights status |
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