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Illuminated Florentine gradual leaves

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Description: Two leaves. 14th or 15th century. 1. Dominus secus mare galilee.... 2. Lignum dulces clavos....
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: undated.
Call number: mssHM 84466 (a-b)
Creator: Catholic Church(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of Jane R. Wyatt, March 1989.
Restrictions: Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.
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Book of Hours, Sarum use : [manuscript]

Manuscripts

ff. 1-187v. [Book of Hours]: ff. 1-6v: Calendar; ff. 7-84v: Hours of the Virgin, Sarum use, missing the illuminated opening leaves before ff. 7, 22, 55, 65, 69 and 77, with suffrages after lauds of the Holy Spirit, the Trinity, the Cross, Michael, John the Baptist, Peter and Paul, John the Evangelist, Edmund king and martyr, Lawrence, Stephen, Nicholas, Mary Magdalene, Catherine of Alexandria, Margaret, All Saints, and for peace; ff. 85-118v: Penitential psalms, gradual psalms and litany; ff. 119-184v: Office of the Dead, Sarum use (one leaf missing before f. 131 with loss of text); ff. 185-186: [added, 14th/15th c.] St. Gregory's Trental; f. 186v: [added, 14th/15th c., in a different hand from above]: Advowsons of 35 churches mainly in Somersetshire and in Devonshire; f. 187: [added, early 14th c.] Prophecy of the Lily, the Lion and the Son of Man; f. 187v: [added, early 14th c., in the same hand as the prophecy]: Reasons for the deposition of anti-Pope John XXIII.

mssHM 1346

Gradual, leaf : [manuscript]

Manuscripts

f. 1r-v. Incipit: //et ego in eo dicit dominus. Feria vi Introitus. Ego autem cum iustitia apparebo. Explicit: Gr. Ad dominum cum tribularer clama//. Latin. Part of Thursday and Friday after the second Sunday in Lent.

mssHM 31546

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Collection of leaves from antiphonals, books of hours, and the four books of sentences

Manuscripts

A collection of leaves from unidentified antiphonals and books of hours; also a vellum binding and modern ephemera. This collection includes: HM 82932 (1) - Peter Lombard, Bishop of Paris, two leaves of a copy of his Four Books of Sentences; HM 82932 (2-5) - 9 leaves from various antiphonals, with black square notes set on red four line staves with decorated initials; HM 82932 (6-16) - 38 leaves from various books of hours, with mostly black and red ink, decorated initials and illuminated borders.

mssHM 82932 (1-16)

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Carthusian Psalter with musical notations

Manuscripts

Psalterium cum Hymnarium et Calendario, early and late 15th century; handwritten in Church Latin in Gothic bookhand in black and red ink on 7 vellum leaves, in three hands, with large initials in blue or red. Originally this psalter had 211 leaves but only these 7 leaves remain; penciled page numbers added by a previous owner.

mssHM 82931

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Gradual

Manuscripts

Gradual is from an unidentified manuscript, written in black and red ink with decorated initials, five-line red staff with square notation. There is some water damage on the bottom of the leaves but no loss of text.

mssHM 82936

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Collection of leaves from a missal, books of hours, and an antiphonal

Manuscripts

A collection of leaves from an unidentified missal, books of hours, and antiphonal; also modern ephemera. HM 82933 (1) leaves from a missal written for Chichester Cathedral, with decorated initials and possibly Flemish illuminated borders. The five leaves are bound into a volume with black Morocco binding and two ribbons laid in; with the bookplate of Edward J. Loftus pasted onto first page.

mssHM 82933 (1-7)

Illuminated Florentine gradual leaves

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