[Collection of hymns and antiphons]

Name:

Catholic Church

Timespan:

Early works to 1800

Date:

1500

Description:

Hymns, antiphons, a litany, etc. beginning with Audi Domine; including Hodie beata virgo Maria; Ave virgo stella maris; Magnificat; Adoramus te Christe; Homo quidam fecit; Exsurge domine; Parce ce domine, parce ce populo tuo; Lux perpetua; Pueri Hebreorum and others; the earliest part of the manuscript ending with Inundaverunt; all with plain chant notation. Additions in later hands (f. 136r-161r), include the Pange lingua; Anthiene de St. Roch [sic] (with music, incipit: Ave Roche); a prayer, Ora pro nobis beata pater Roche; Veni creator spiritus (without music); and an index to 88 hymns and antiphons in a 17th-century hand (f. 166-167). Also includes: Repond que l'on chante à la reception d'une nouvelle doÿenne, with plain chant notation in a 17th-century hand (f. i recto). The chants are from a chapter of secular canonesses in Andenne (chapitre noble des chanoinesses d'Andenne), but not copied in liturgical order.

Language:

Latin

Provenance:

Possibly originally owned by the Chapitre noble des chanoinesses d'Andenne, a community of secular, noble-born canonesses in Andenne (Anne-Emmanuelle Ceulemans).; Formerly owned by Robert de Mol (coat of arms dated 1566, f. vii recto) and the De Noot family (f. iii recto), both connected with Andenne (Anne-Emmanuelle Ceulemans).; Formerly held in the Bibliotheca Elseghemensis (late 19th- or early 20th-century bookplate, with attribution Lith. N. Heins. Gand, inside upper cover), in Elseghem or Elsegem in East Flanders, Belgium, near Ghent.; Gift of Albert C. Baugh, 1965.; Mol, Robert de, 16th century, former owner.; Baugh, Albert C. 1891-1981, former owner.

Subject:

Catholic Church -- Liturgy -- Texts; Catholic Church; Liturgics; Monastic and religious life of women; Magnificat (Music); Antiphons (Music); Hymns, Latin; Gregorian chants -- Manuscripts; Gregorian chants; Hymns, Latin -- Early works to 1800; Antiphons (Music) -- Early works to 1800; Magnificat (Music) -- Early works to 1800; Monastic and religious life of women -- Early works to 1800

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

Texts; Codices; Coats of arms; Gregorian chants; Prayers; Litanies (prayers); Hymnals; Manuscripts, Latin; Manuscripts, Renaissance; Manuscripts, European; manuscripts (documents)

Physical Description:

178 leaves : parchment and paper, color illustrations, music; 149 x 91 mm bound to 158 x 96 mm

Geographic Subject:

Andenne (Belgium) -- Church history

Rights:

https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/

Notes:

Ms. codex.; Title supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch).; Foliation: Parchment and paper, i (paper endleaf) + 5 (paper) + 163 (parchment) + 10 (paper) + i (paper endleaf); [vii], 1-161, [162-171]; 17th-century foliation in ink, upper right recto; some foliation lost due to trimmed edges. There may be folios or quires missing between f. 48-49 and 138-139.; Script: Written in Gothic and humanistic scripts by numerous hands.; Decoration: Rubricated headings, initials, and capitals; 3 coats of arms painted in color; 2 in watercolor on paper (f. ii recto, f. iii recto), and an earlier coat of arms on parchment, (f. vii recto) dated 1566.; Binding: 17th- or 18th-century calf, split along spine.; Origin: Written in Andenne, Belgium in the 16th and 17th centuries (Anne-Emmanuelle Ceulemans).; Latin, with a few headings in French.

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Ms. Codex 713