Manuscript 11

Syracuse University Library, Department of Special Collections

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Brief Description of the Manuscript 
Index of Selected Images from the Manuscript  
Links to Manuscript Descriptions in Table Format
Links to Brief Descriptions & Indices to Selected Images
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MS 11, also known as Syracuse Gradual, or the Weiss Antiphoner after donor Barbara Weiss, is an extremely large (55 x 39.5cm) and well-used Dominican Gradual of Saints, probably originating in Castile, Spain, and can be dated to the period of 1484-ca.1524. It consists of 148 leaves (and 10 flyleaves), 156 which are parchment and 2 paper leaves added at a later period. The text is in Latin but marginal notations appear in Spanish. The text is in Gothic script and the music is in Black Square Gregorian notation on 5-line red staves. Although the binding is not the original, it is contemporary to or older than the main text. The boards are covered with vellum, and the spine with suede, while clasps, corner guards, bosses, and brass plates (added later) ornament the binding.

The MS , which is now a 1 volume Gradual of saints, probably was part of a complete Gradual which also included a Temporale. The text as it now appears includes the Sanctorale; commons of the apostles, martyrs, confessors, & virgins; and votive masses. The liturgy combines elements from the Mozarabic rite, Roman/Gregorian use, and the Dominican tradition. The chant represents a transitional stage between the original Gregorian tradition and the revisions of Humbert de Romans.

Artwork consists of decorative initials and marginal designs of varying degrees of ornamentation and uses abstract and geometric patterns and red and blue colors.



For more details on this manuscript, see the description of the MS 11 in table format. Sources for description information are available through the Citations link and other relevant sources, print and electronic, through the Additional References link.

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Index of Selected Images from MS 11

f.3v, "Dominus secus mare galile..."

f.3v (alternate image), "Dominus secus mare galile..."

f.3v, detail of initial

f.55r, "In medio ecclesie aperuit..."

f.55r (alternate image), "In medio ecclesie aperuit..."

f.55r, detail of initial

f.81v, "Mihi autem nimis honrati sunt amici tuis..."

f.81v, detail of initial

f.145r, detail of initial

Binding


 

MANUSCRIPT DESCRIPTIONS IN TABLE FORMAT

MS 1

MS 2

MS 3

MS 5

MS 6

MS 7

MS 11

MS 12

MS 27

MS 90 

 

BRIEF DESCRIPTIONS & INDICES TO SELECTED IMAGES

MS 1

MS 2

MS 3

MS 5

MS 6

MS 7

MS 11

MS 12

MS 27

MS 90 

 


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