Item Summary

French Missal. Some sections contain notated music with neumes.

Descriptive Information

Title
[Missal, Domenican use].
Call Number
Garrett MS. 41
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcp55484404
Publisher
[Paris?], [between 1300 and 1350]
Language
Latin
Date Created
1300-1350
Format
Manuscript
Extent
399 leaves : parchment, illustrations ; 215 x 147 (140 x 97) mm bound to 229 x 163 mm.
Provenance
Owned by the Dominican Monastery of St. Louis in the mid-14th century. Intermediate provenance unknown. Later owned by Thomas Harrison Garrett, then his son, Robert Garrett, Class of 1897. His gift to Princeton University Library in 1942.
Source Acquisition
Gift of Robert Garrett, 1942.
References
Medieval & Renaissance manuscripts in the Princeton University Library, volume, pages 60-63.
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Contents
1. fol. 1r-4v: [Graded calendar]
2. fol. 5r-137r: [Temporale]
3. fol. 138r-140v: [Order of the Mass]
4. fol. 141r-211v: [Temporale]
5. fol. 212r-306r: [Sanctorale]
6. fol. 306r-316v: [Common of Saints]
7. fol. 316v-332v: [Commemorations]
8. fol. 332v-341v: [Prayers before Mass]
9. fol. 341v-350v: [Processional chants]. Notated music with neumes.
10. fol. 351r-364v: [Sequences for major feasts]
11. fol. 365r-371v: [Masses and Prosae]
12. fol. 373r-373v: [Mass of St. Yvo of Kermartin, Brittany]
13. fol. 374r-393r: [Texts and chants for Holy Thursday] Contains notated music with neumes.
14. fol. 393r-394v: [Chants for Good Friday]. Notated music with neumes.
15. fol. 394r-397v: [Unidentified chants]. Notated music with neumes.
16. fol. 397v-399v: [Three notated processional responsories]. Notated music with neumes.
Notes
Ms. codex.
Title devised by cataloger.
Folio 235 defective; decorated initial has been cut out.
Collation: Parchment ; fol. i (modern paper) + 399 + i (modern paper) ; modern foliation in pencil.
Layout: 25 lines per page in two columns ; ruled.
Decoration: Parisian French Gothic. Eleven historiated initials with marginal extensions. 3-line initials for primary divisions, and 1- to 2-line initials in gold, blue and/or red for sections. See the Index of Christian Art or the entry in Medieval & Renaissance manuscripts in the Princeton University Library for detailed descriptions of the initials.
Origin: Written and illuminated in Paris for a Dominican nunnery at the turn of the 14th century.
Binding Note
Later binding. 19th-century, French. Parchment over pasteboard, with yapps. Endbands.

Discovery Information

Subject
Catholic Church—Prayers and devotions
Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)—New Jersey—Princeton

Physical Characteristics

File Count
810

Institutional Information

Collection
Medieval and Renaissance Mediterranean Manuscripts
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/8097ef86-1d3a-4a3d-8e49-559a96ab2af0/manifest