Medieval Studies and Research: Antiphonaries, Breviaries, and Psalters at USC

Year: late 15th century
Country: Italy
Language: Italian
Antiphonarium. Prelim. leaf, leaf 441 and Table of contents added later; leaves after the first 209 wrongly numbered. Responsories to the major offices from Holy Saturday to the first Sunday of Advent. On vellum; red staves with black Gregorian notation; decorated capitals and rubrication. Bound in oak boards covered with old calf and brass strips with corner motifs.

NOTES: Gift of Dr. Rufus B. Von KleinSmid.

Language: Latin and Spanish
Uniform Title: Breviary
Title: Officium in festo Omnium Sanctorum, ad instar Brevierii Romani sub Urbano PP. VIII. recogniti.
Contributors:
Quadra, Antonio de, ill.
Garcia Herreros, Joseph.
Subjects:
Catholic Church Officium pro defunctis
Catholic Church -- Liturgy -- Texts -- History and criticism
Divine office -- History and criticism
Prayers for the dead -- History
Description: "Officium defunctorum": 79 p. at end.
Printed in red and black.
Woodcuts: Initials, tail pieces. Title page vignette.
Bound in leather, gold-stamped decorative ruling, green and red marbled end papers, gold-edged paper.
"Por mandado de su ilustrisima, Antonio de Quadra." -- P. [81].
Publisher: Matriti : In Typ. Regia
Format: 132, 79, [2], p. : ill. ; 15 cm.
Language Note: Text in Latin with [2] p. in Spanish at end.

NOTES: Special Collections copy inscribe on T.p. verso.

Country: Italy
Language: Latin
Title: Innoīc oḿ. aḿ. incip̀ordi breviarii
Contributor: Bradway, Lillian Neale, -1938, former owner.
Subjects:
Catholic Church -- Liturgy
Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern) -- California -- Los Angeles
Initials -- 1301-1310
Illuminations -- 1301-1310
Half bindings (Binding)
Leather bindings (Binding)
Wooden boards (Binding)
Description: Manuscript codex.
Title from rubric on first leaf of text; preceded by calendar.
"This is pretty obviously a Franciscan breviary. The contents of the Sanctorale (ff. 129-118v) run very closely parallel with those in "Il Primitivo Breviario Francescano (1224-1227), " as published by P. Giuseppe Abate in Miscellanea Francesana, and the only additions found were two more Franciscan feasts: Trans. Farancess (9 lessons) on ff. 5-25 and Antony of Padua (with a full office, vigil and all. The calendar has some local saints" -- Sherry Reames,
University of Wisconsin, notes laid in
Collation: Parchment, fol. 172 (1r blank, ruled)
Layout: Written in 32 lines, two columns; some text and letters in red ink.
Script: Written in gothic miniscule.
Decoration: elaborate three-line initials first leaf of text, and hundreds of two-line initials; all with marginal extensions.
Binding: In half-leather leather over wooden boards.
Format: 238 leaves : parchment ; 260 x 185 mm. bound to 272 x 197 mm.

NOTES: Acquisition Source: gift ; Estate of Lillian Neale Bradway; 19460806.

Year: 1300
Country: France
Language: Latin
Title: Currus pharaonis et exercitum eius proiecit in mare Adiutor ...
Author: Catholic Church. Liturgy and ritual.
Contributors: Beyssac, G.M.
Church of St. Pierre (Langres, France)
Subjects:
Catholic Church -- Liturgy
Breviaries
Illumination of books and manuscripts, French
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval -- France
Description: Latin text and music for Vespers for the 4th Sunday in Lent.
Holograph.
Title from first line of text.
Rubricated leaf from a 13th century French breviary, finely written on choice vellum in a neat Gothic hand. The musical notations are of chaste mediaeval beauty.
Dom G.M. Beyssac, O.S.B., has examined this manuscript and concludes that it was written in the 13th century for use in the Church of St. Pierre at Langres, France. Ill. with red, blue and green ink. Text and musical notation in black ink on red staffs. Blue initials encircled with red ink. Red initials encircled in green ink.
Publisher: Langres, France: s.n.
Format: [1] leaf (2 columns, 16-17 lines) : vellum : col. ill. ; 20 cm.

NOTES: Spec. Coll. copy is numbered p. 154.
USC Digital Library: http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p15799coll58/id/506

Language: Latin
Variant Title: Liber usualis
Title: [Psalter, Antiphons and Hymns]
Contributor: Bradway, Lillian Neale, -1938, former owner.
Subjects:
Catholic Church -- Hymns
Psalters
Antiphons (Music)
Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern) -- California -- Los Angeles
Initials -- 1321-1340
Leather bindings (Binding)
Raised cords; Wooden boards; Furniture (Binding)
Wooden boards; Furniture (Binding)
Furniture (Binding)
Ink stamps (Provenance) -- United States -- 19th century
Auction copies (Provenance) -- United States -- 19th century
Description: Manuscript codex.
Title provided by cataloger; formerly referred to as "Liber usualis"
"The script of the psalter and hymnal suggests that the manuscript was made in Italy in the fourteenth century. the manuscript is written in Gothic Textualis formata. A fourteenth-century Italian manuscript written in a similar script is a fourteenth-century Boethius at Columbia University (Benjamin MS 4)" -- Elizabeth Teviotdale, from notes laid in
Collation: Parchment, fol. 172 (1r blank, ruled)
Layout: Written in 20 lines; some text and letters in red ink; music lined red in four staves.
Script: Written in gothic textualis formata.
Decoration: elaborate eight-line initial in red and blue ink first leaf of text, and hundreds of two-line initials in red and blue ink; all with marginal extensions.
Binding: In ful leather over wooden boards with metal furniture and raised cords.
Format: 202 numbered leaves : parchment, music ; 327 x 243 mm. bound to 350 x 265 mm.

NOTES: Acquisition Source
gift ; Estate of Lillian Neale Bradway; 19460806.
Bookplate of Frank Wood; William Appleton, 76 Beacon Street, Boston, MA, Jan. 12, 1872, auction stamp.

Manuscript.
Language: Latin

Ralph Tyler Flewelling purchased this manuscript for the USC Hoose Library of Philosophy collection on November 7, 1920 from Jules Meynial. Meynial was a bookseller and publisher located at 30 Boulevard Haussmann, Paris, France. Meynial took over the business “Librairie E. Jean-Fontaine” from his mentor E. Jean-Fontaine (Emile-Casimir-Jean Fontaine).

NOTES: USC Libraries Special Collections' copy restored in honor of Courtney Surl’s service to USC, May 1, 2012.
MMS ID: 991025701649703731
Director of the USC Philosophy Department, Ralph Tyler Flewelling, purchased this manuscript for the USC HOOSE LIBRARY OF PHILOSOPHY.