#antiphonary

[upennmanuscripts]

Many - most - manuscripts survive only in fragments. Here we have three adjacent fragments from a large antiphonary leaf. Text on both sides is from Psalm 138 and one side also includes musical notation. Written in a large Gothic hand with red and blue initials. Because the style of liturgical manuscripts didn't change much through the mid to late middle ages, we can't say any date more exact than between 1300 and 1599.

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[cuties-in-codices]

musicians

from the margins of an antiphonary manuscript, bohemia, c. 1499

source: Vienna, ÖNB, Mus.Hs.15494, fol. 51r and 121v

[lionofchaeronea]

Title: Manuscript Illumination with All Saints in an Initial 'V' (manuscript cutting from an Antiphonary) Artist: Cosmè (Cosimo) Tura (Italian, 1430-1495) Date: 1450s Genre: religious art Period: Italian Renaissance (Quattrocento) Movement: School of Ferrara Medium: Tempera, ink, and gold on parchment Location: Metropolitan Museum of Art

[metmuseum]

Bifolium with Initial C, from an Antiphonary. ca. 1320. Credit line: Gift of Miss Alice M. Dike, in memory of her father, Henry A. Dike, 1928 https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/466792

[yiddishknights]

I recently found out that the V&A does ASMR-style videos where they educate about objects in their collection. I think it's a super neat idea. This video in particular, about the handling of rare books, made me really nostalgic for my grad school days.

Likewise this one about a medieval antiphonary, featuring the sweet, sweet sound of vellum page turning.

[usedcarheaven]

Jesus Stoned by the Crowd, in an initial I

Cutting from an Antiphonary, ( Latin)

Illuminated by Master B. F.

Italy, Milan, ca. 1500 , the Morgan Library

[thegothicera]

Antiphonary IV: Illustration to the Office of the Dead by Giovanni di Paolo, Italian, ca. 1442

[readingvocabulary]

Les Murray

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antiphonary - a book of plainsong for the Divine Office

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Ishihara dots

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pukka

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in-continuo

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[insidemyfavoritemanuscript]

Episode 2: Lisa Fagin Davis on a Fragment, a Forgery, and a Fiend

Women bathing in the Voynich manuscript

In Episode 2 of Inside My Favorite Manuscript, Dot and Lindsey talk to manuscript scholar Lisa Fagin Davis about three of her favorite manuscripts, all of which happen to be in the collections of the Beinecke Library at Yale University:

The Gottschalk Antiphonary, now a collection of fragments

Epistolary, Cistercian Use, a 15th century manuscript with substantial forged illustrations added in the 19th century

Cypher Manuscript aka The Voynich Manuscript, a fiend of a manuscript that has proven itself impossible to decipher

Listen to the episode here or wherever you get your podcasts!

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Below the cut are photos of some of the specific things we discuss in this episode.

Beinecke MS 481.51: Gottschalk Antiphonary:

Beinecke MS 283: Epistolary, Cistercian Use:

Beinecke MS 408: Cypher Manuscript aka The Voynich Manuscript

Page from the herbal section:

Page opening from the astrological / zodiacal section:

Page from the bathing section:

Large fold-out:

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The Medievalist: A Novel, by Phil Adamo.

[heaveninawildflower]

Decorated initial letters taken from a Benedictine Antiphonary (circa 1467–70) by   Belbello da Pavia (Italian, active circa 1420–70) and collaborators.

 Tempera, gold, and ink on parchment.

Images and text information courtesy The Met.

[upennmanuscripts]

Coffee With A Codex: Antiphonary

Join us on Zoom every Tuesday at 12pm Noon EDT / 5pm BST to look at manuscripts from Penn’s collection in an informal environment.

On September 27, Curator Dot Porter will bring out Ms. Codex 1590, a Secular (as opposed to monastic) antiphonary for liturgical use in Lyon, containing the chants of the Divine Office for major feasts and Sundays. Written in France, probably Lyon, in the last quarter of the 13th or first quarter of the 14th century.

The event is informal and everyone is welcome to attend.

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If you miss a week or you just want to know what Coffee With A Codex is about, you can watch recordings of past events on the CWAC YouTube Playlist.

[cuties-in-codices]

jesus and mary standing before god

in an illuminated liturgical manuscript, germany, c. 1494

source: Munich, BSB, Clm 23043(2, fol. 1v

[ars-videndi]

Master B.F. (Italian, active about 1495 - 1510), Initial E: Saint John the Evangelist (from an antiphonal), early 16th century, tempera and gold leaf on parchment, 16.5 x 16.5 cm. J. Paul Getty Museum

[themuseumwithoutwalls]

MWW Artwork of the Day (11/13/19) Lorenzo Monaco (Sienese, c. 1370-c. 1425) Antiphonary (1406) Tempera and gold on parchment, 31.5 x 26.5 mm The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

This miniature was excised from an antiphonary (one of the principal choir books of Catholic devotion) painted by Lorenzo Monaco for the Camaldolese convent of Santa Maria degli Angeli, Florence. The initial C introduces one of the responses for the celebration of the Office of the Dead: "Credo quod redemptor meus vivit, et novissimo die terra resurrecturus sum, et in carnee mea videbo Deum, Salvatorem meum" (I believe that my Redeemer lives, and that on the last day I shall rise from the earth and in my flesh I shall see God, my Savior). Inside the initial, the bust-length figure of Christ, his right hand raised in judgment, emerges from a bank of clouds set against a burnished gold background. To his right, an angel blows the trumpet of the Last Judgment. Below them, the dead emerge from cracks in the rocky ground, their hands clasped in prayer. (from the MMA catalog)

[metmuseum]

Manuscript Leaf with Initial O, from an Antiphonary. second quarter 15th century. Credit line: Gift of Miss Alice M. Dike, in memory of her father, Henry A. Dike, 1928 https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/466718

[dewitty1]

From The Archives Of Prague Castle.

Found here (via Kybl).