Antiphonal chants for Saint Lucia, Saint Thomas, and Saint Agnes, 14th or 15th century

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Title: Antiphonal chants for Saint Lucia, Saint Thomas, and Saint Agnes, 14th or 15th century
Associated Name: Wormer, Grace
Date Created: 1300/1499
14th century
15th century
Notes: The date of 14th/15th century is based on the four-line staves, square neumes with variable distance between them, and decorated capitals. The script indicates 15th rather than 14th century.
29.3 x 38.4 mm
Contents: These are antiphons to be sung between Advent and Easter at the Magnificat. They are for Saint Lucia (December 13), Saint Thomas (July 3), and Saint Agnes, the Virgin (January 21, vespers).
Language: Latin
Archival Collection: Medieval Manuscripts
Collection Identifier: MSC0542
Call Number: xfMMs.An2
Collection Guide: http://aspace.lib.uiowa.edu/repositories/2/resources/514
Foliation: Foliation: Perhaps an indication of the folio on the recto about 2/3rd the way down the page.
Hand: Hand: Humanist script. A gothic rotunda type hand?
Musical Notation: Musical Notation: 6 staves of music with lyrics underneath. Staves are ruled with 8 mm (height) between each line. Lyrics are written in space of 20 mm high. 4-line red staves. Neumes are black and square. Ligatures. Measures are indicated. No accidentals. Lucia's chant is in Mode 6. Thomas's chant is in Mode 7. The mode cannot be identified for Agnes's chant because the last note is not apparent.
Initials and Capitals: Initials and Capitals: Alternating red and blue capitals for the beginning of each new antiphon. Extended flourishes of the opposite color which trail into and up and down the margins.
Rubrication: Rubrication: An initial rubric written within the staves announces the three antiphons and their followers. Smaller rubrics announce each antiphon, who it is for, when it is sung, what follows, etc.
Provenance: Provenance: Former University of Iowa Librarian, Grace Wormer, donated the leaf to the University of Iowa Libraries in July 1970.
Host institution: University of Iowa. Libraries. Special Collections Department
Conservation Note: Conservation Note: University of Iowa Libraries, Conservation Lab, conservator unidentified.
Digitization Specifications: Scanned with Zeutschel OS12000 overhead scanner at 300 ppi, full color. Archival tiff available.
Date Digital: 2008-10-24
Rights Management: Material in the public domain. No restrictions on use.
Contact Information: Contact the Special Collections Department at The University of Iowa Libraries: http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/sc/contact
Item Type (DCMI): Text
Item Type (RBMS): Antiphonaries
Item Type (LCTGM): Musical notation
Initials
Item Type (Local): Antiphonal
Item Type (IMT): jpeg