Antiphonary for the Cistercian rite

Description

Title: Antiphonary for the Cistercian rite
Creator: Ferdinandez, Petrus
Published / Created: 1571
Publication Place: Spain
Abstract: Manuscript fragments on parchment of an Antiphonary by Petrus Ferdinandez of Leon
Description: In Latin.
Script: copied by a single hand in Southern Gothica Textualis Formata with Spanish features. Nota quadrata music notation. Additions of text and music by later hands.
Paragraph marks and rubrics in red. Yellow heightening of majuscules. Large plain initials (height: 1 stave + 1 text line). Cadels of the same size.
Text and musical notation on a five-line staff. Large initials in red, brown, and blue. Rubrics and liturgical instructions in red. Additional antiphons with musical notation added in margins in a hand of the 17th-18th century.
Provenance: Copied in 1571 by Petrus Ferdinandez of León by order of Maria de Henao, nun of a Cistercian convent called Carectum, for the use of the novices. Formerly Beinecke MS 3.32.
Extent: ff. 6 : 200 x 135 mm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: Latin

Repository: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Call Number: Beinecke MS 628
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Genre: Manuscripts, Renaissance Spain 16th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscript Fragments in Beinecke Library
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Material: parchment ;
Resource Type: unspecified
Subject (Geographic): Connecticut
New Haven.
Subject (Name): Ferdinandez, Petrus.
Catholic Church
Cistercians.
Subject (Topic): Liturgy
Antiphonaries
Manuscripts, Medieval
Monasticism and religious orders
Subjects: Ferdinandez, Petrus
Catholic Church > Liturgy
Cistercians
Antiphonaries
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Monasticism and religious orders
Spain > 16th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscript Fragments in Beinecke Library
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library

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Citation: Antiphonary for the Cistercian Rite. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.