Farfel Notebook 02: Leaves 065-134

90 Nov. '78 B. Rosenthal $26.50 Double leaf manuscript to neumes written on vellum - 21 lines to the page Gothic. Northern Europe - probably 12-13th C Germany (C 1200) Noted Missal? Breviary to neumes the 4 simplest neumes were: punctum, virger, clivis and podetus: . 1 / / The 1st 2 such indicate a single Tome, the punctuation normally a shorter one than the virger. Each of the latter 2 signs represents a pair of Tomes which discard in the clivis + ascend in the podatus. late 12th C - nearly all the styles of neume writing had ecolved into sqare notation on a staff. Neumes are not found in any manuscript before the 9th C. oratorical - neumes used only on a general remider to the singer of the comes of the melody. They give no idea of the actual intervals of teh melody. distematic - in this writing neumes are carefully "heighted", ie placed at various distances from an imaginary line representing a given pitch, according to their relationship to that line.

ho=homo XV qu=quando q=qui ht=habet una=vestra XII apl's=apostolus ihu=Jheus Spc=spiritus pcca=peccata g=ergo aq=aquse unm=vestum gra=gratia XV loh'es=Johannes l3=sed recent gothic 7 (et) capital I to ball on the side (ie >1200)

Cratorical neumes - found in Italy until the 11th C, in France, England + Spain unitl the 12t C, in Germany + Switzerland until the 13 + 14the C.

Tropers - practically represent the sum total of musical advance between the 9 + 12th C. The Roman chant for the Mass had assumed a fixed form in the co use of the 7th C in the Gregorian Antiphonule Missarum. All new developments in musical compisition were thrown together so as to form an independent collection supplemental to the offical books - a traper. (novel additions to the litargy) Tropists the Ordinary - Greater Trapes - A Kynic - 'cum farsma' or 'farsa' Gloria in Excelsis - Laudes Trope in the regular word to describe additions ot the Inhoit, Offerotny + Communion Sequentia - primarily a musical term (a melody with words) - came to be the name for a hymn or poem - a Trope in fact to the Alleluie. In France - Proser - the Tropes as a system were extinct by the beginning of the 13th C, though certain parts survived longer + [?wen?] still survive.

St. Gregory the Great (c 590-604) Pope from 590 to 604 St. Benedict of Nmsia (c 480-543) The Church, like the Roman Empire was organized by way of provinces; the administration of each province was the bishop, whose cicil functions + pover increased to fill the void left by decline of Roman administration. "Liber regulse pastoralis" - a treatise on the duties of the bishop "Magna Moralia" - a 25 book commentary on Job - laid the doctrinal foundations of medieval theology + [?aegesis?]

Introit for the 1st Sunday in Advent Offertorium Liber Usualis p. 318

4 25th Ds ad te fominic levavi animam meam: deus

meus, inte confide, non erv bes cam :/ ne q3 (use)

innideant me inimici mci :/ et enim univeri

qui sustinent te non confum dentm. Deus ms (meus XII p) Sequsntia sancti Evangelii secuordum Joannem c.2 In illo tempore: Nuptiae factae aunt im cama Galilaeae: et erat mater Jesu ini. Vocatus est autem et Jesus, et discipuli eyus, ad huptius 3 24th Ps. Rx responsio In vigilia natalie domini Domini est terra et plenitudo eius: orbis Tertarum

et uniuersi qui habitant in eo. see #59, 89 * quia: i pse super mania fundauit eum:

et super flumina praepuavit eum ....

Beginning of the liturgical year - from the 9th C comes to earliest Gospel list that begins the year to the 1st of Sunday of Advent, the 4th Sunday preceeding Chistmas. This practice became common only after the year 1000 + had since been the custom to the present day. Ad te levavi - the opening antiphone of the Introit of the 1st Sunday of Advent which begins the Missal. (Temporal)

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91 Jan, '79 S.F. BookFair Rog Bleiwuiss Fine Books $17.50 (1230-1298) Los Angeles Jacobus de Vorafine [crossed out] (b. hyre Normandy, c 1270; d. Paris c 1349) [end crossed out] The Golden Legend - 3 vol. (500 paper - these were no vellum copies) London, Hammersmith 16, Upper Mall: William in the county of Middlesex Morris (1834-1896) Now 3, 1892 [inserted] Sept 12 - completion of printing large [end inserted] Querto Kelmscott Press (1891-98) - altogether 18,234 volumes p. 311-14 were printed of 53 books Golden Type - Morris began to design his Golden Type late in 1889 it was derived from the 15C roman Type of Nicholas Jenson as remodeled by Morris - Punches of the Golden Type, as of the later Troy + Chamcer, were cut by Edward P Prince - 83 for Golden, 91 for Troy, 84 for Chamcer Paper - by Josephy Batchelor - a hand paper marker of th Little Chark, Kent -pure linen paper, well sized + very tough 3 distinct stocks of paper were eventially made for the Kelmscott Press, all to watermarks after Morris's design + begining his initials. 1) n - marked to a primrose, 2 marks being positioned in opposite corners of the sheet (16x11") *b - double sixed shut of 16x22", to allow The Golden Legend to be imposed more efficiently as a quart. Its monk is also a primrose, to monks placed in all 4 corners of the sheet 2) A slightly larger sheet of 16 3/4x23" was made for the Chmver + was also used in many of the larger quartos after 1892. Its watermark being placed in the center of 1/2 of the sheet. 3) the last stock of paper made in 1895 was w 18 1/4 x [crossed out] 13 [end crossed out] " 12 3/4 LTs marks is a simple apple on a 2 leaved stem, to a mark centered in each 1/2 of the sheet. William Morris + The Art of the Kook Santa Clara A 686.209 N37 The Work of W Morris Paul Thompson 921 M877