Identifier:

170/521.

Scope and content:

1) ff. 1-51v: Antiphonal. ff. 1-34v from Dominica in ramis palmarum to Pascha; ff. 34v-38v In die ascensionis; ff. 38v-47v In purificationis beate Marie Virginis; ff. 48-49 In solempni receptione coniunctus; ff. 49-50v In receptione legatorum et prelatorum, ff. 50v-51v In receptione secularium et principum f. 52r-v blank.

2) ff. 53-69: [Office of the dead] Non intres in iudicium cum servo tuo domine . . .; f. 56v [office for a member of a religious community] Deus qui inter apostolicos sacerdotes famulum tuum pontificali fecisti dignitate vigere presta quesumus . . .; f. 68v Que circa sepulturam fratris supra notata sunt ubi commode non possunt servari plenarie propter paucitatem fratrum minuatur de solempnitate notata et fiat ut prelato videbitur faciendum. Hoc idem fiat circha sepulturam extraneorum sive sint pauci sive sint multi fratres, excepto quod ad eorum corpora deferenda non ponantur fratres . . . oratio satisfaciat ut supra notatum est, ff. 69v-70v blank.

Acquisition information:

Written in Italy in the first half of the fifteenth century for a regular religious community; cf. ff. 56v, 68v. Belonged to D'Alté A. Welch (1907-1970), friend of Wilbur J. Smith (curator of UCLA's Special Collections 1951-1971) and author of the Bibliography of American Children's Books Printed Prior to 1821 (Worcester, Massachusetts, 1972). Given to UCLA with his collection of children's books by his widow in 1971.

Physical description:

Parchment, ff. i (paper, modern) + 70 + i (paper, modern); 170 × 120 (120 × 80) mm. 1-5 , 6 (-9, 10). Horizontal catchwords in the center of the lower margin, framed by flourishes or by sketches of fantastic animals. 15 long lines or 5 lines of text and 5 of music, ruled in lead. Written in a bold rounded Italian gothic bookhand in liturgical style (littera textualis formata); dark brown ink; rubrics in black, in gothic verging on notula. 2-line initials alternately red on blue penwork and blue on red; 1-line initials alternately red and blue; initials in the text slashed with red. Music in square notation on staves of 4 red lines. Contemporary corrections to the text.

Bound in dark brown calf over paste boards, green fore-edge, s. XVIII/XIX.

Note:

Secundo folio: ex discipulis suis

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