Sixteenth century

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This is a late sixteenth-century Spanish liturgical psalter. It contains the Psalms of the Sunday Office of Matins through None with antiphons and responses throughout the year. There is musical notation for the Te Deum and for the Hymns, antiphons, and responses at Prime and Terce.

Abstract This is a fifteenth- or sixteenth century breviary from Northern Europe.Table of contents: Graded Franciscan Calendar; Temporal from Advent through the fourth Sunday of November; General rubrics; In nomine Domini incipit benedictio aquae secundum ordinem romanae curiae; Psalter; Canticles and Prayers; Litany with prayers; Hymns for Vespers, Matins, and Lauds for the Temporal and the Sanctoral; Incipit ordo ad benedicendam mensam per totum annum; Ordo ad communicandum infirmum;...

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This manuscript, written in the first quarter of the sixteenth century in Rouen, contains Pierre Mesenge's Journal de sainct voyage pour visiter le sainct sepulcre, a first-person account of a journey to Jerusalem in 1507. The author describes sites in Jerusalem and Bethlehem, as well as other cities. The text is primarily in French but includes many prayers in Latin. The manuscript is written on parchment with numerous small illuminated initials and line-fillers.

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ff. 1r-117v [Title page:] Psalterium in Dominicis per annum. Ad Matutinum.Invitatorium. Inc., f. 1v: Adoremus Dominum qui fecit nos. . .Expl.: Versus. loquebantur variis linguis apostoli, alleluia. Resp. Magna/ Psalms of the Sunday Office of Matins through None with antiphons and responses throughout the year. Musical notation for the Te Deum and for the Hymns, antiphons, and responses at Prime and Terce.

f. 118r-v Table of content

Abstract Sisters of the kings of France, the author Christine de Pizan, and Balzac’s droll fictitious heroines – these are among the residents of the prestigious royal foundation of the Dominican nuns at Poissy. Every manuscript that becomes known from Poissy is worthy of special note not just because of the fame of the abbey but also because of the contribution of its women to late medieval liturgical music. Whereas Processionals survive in increasingly large numbers from Poissy, Sequentiaries, such...

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This is an early sixteenth-century Italian manuscript by Domizio Calderino, which includes two texts: a treatise on the gods and a commentary on Virgil's Aeneid. The manuscript is made of five or six different paper stocks, one of which is of a smaller size. The initials of the first words in each text division are in large majuscules outside the text block.