farfel_n11_017_662

662
Griffon's Medieval MSS
St. Petersburg, FL.
Dec '07
$30.51 (refunded)

Diurnal, MSS on vellum.
Germany: circa 1450, in Latin.
Text from the Temporale.

13.1 x 10.2 cm. marked folio 147. Written in a
batard script with brown ink, double columns,
28 lines, ruled lightly with red ink. 2 line initials
in red and blue. Pin prickings in outer margin.
Rubrics in red or underlined in red. Long
ascenders in top and bottom lines.

Divine office designed for use by the clergy -->
standard components: Calendar; Psalter;
Temporale; Sanctorale; and Common of Saints.

Proper of Season - periods are arranged; Advent,
Christmastide, Septuagesmia, Lent, Holy Week, paschal
time, and the time after Pentacost.

Each of the hours of the Office in the Roman Liturgy
is composed of the same elements; psalms (and now and
then canticles) antiphones, responories, hymns, lessons,
versicles, little chapter and collects (prayers).

The Proper of the Season contains the Office of all the Sundays
and festivals belonging to it, with special lessosns, extracts from the
Gospels and frequently also proper antiphones, responsories, and psalms,
adapted to the peculiar character of these different periods