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Ref No IE TCD MS 109
Former Shelf Marks Lyon: B.1.2
Bernard: 544
Foley: E.6
c1670: E.1.9
Ussher: DDD.4
Title Antiphonal
Creation Dates [1450-1499]
Extent And Medium Parchment; 134 leaves.
Level Of Description Collection
Scope And Content Folios 1-134v. (1)-(2) Antiphonal with music (possibly there was a companion volume which contained calendar, psalter, and temporale), Irish Franciscan Roman use ( 'Analecta Hymnica Medii Aeui', edd. G.M. Dreves et al., (Leipzig, 1886-1922), repr. (New York and London, 1961), 55 volumes, 11:92-94, with usage of TCD MS 109, and these hymns on St Bonaventure are also printed by G. Abate in 'Miscellanea Franciscana' 38 [1938], 169-171, apparently from 'Analecta Hymnica'; 'Analecta Hymnica' 19:88-90, 141-142, 25:152-155, 172-175, 26:49-51, 270-273, with use of TCD MS 109):

Folios 1-118: (1) Sanctorale (Incipit feliciter proprium sanctorum per anni circulum secundum ritum Romane ecclesie), in two sections:

1-92v. (a) Andrew, 30 November - Clement, 23 November, but office for Clement probably ends imperf.: A. Dedisti domine habitaculum martiri… ut enarrent mirabilia tua. P. Mag’. Loss of text after 87v (text jumps from Francis, 4 October, to Presentation of Blessed Virgin Mary, 21 November: cf. catchword ‘suis’ on 87v whereas 88 commences with ‘in mente’). Some loss of text on 69rv and of some marginalia on 101v (part of each leaf torn away). (a) includes services for Antony of Padua (30-34v), Clare (60v-65v), Louis bishop (68-72v), Francis (82-87v). On 22v ‘Lux prope tua lucebit sanctis tuis’ is struck through in red.

93-118. (b) Special services: antiphons honouring Blessed Virgin Mary (93-94v), Francis (94v), Patrick (95-99), Gabriel (99v-103), Bernardinus (103v-109), Bonaventure (109-114v), Catherine of Alexandria (114v-117v), Antony of Padua (118). Loss of leaf after 94v: text jumps from ‘Francisci floret ortulus in quo fulget Anto-’ to ‘In festo sancti Patricii… Veneranda imminens diei’ U. Chevalier, 'Repertorium Hymnologicum', (Louvain and Paris, 1892-1921), 6 volumes, no. 21155). 118v blank.

Folios 119-134v: (2) Common of saints (Incipit commune sanctorum in nataliciis apostolorum), ends imperf. (common of virgin martyr): Ad laudes et per horas antiphona. Hec est uirgo sapiens et una de numero prudentum Euouae. A. Hec ('est' catchword).
Phyiscal Description Dimensions: 480 x 340 (362 x 240)

Layout: 24 lines on pages without musical staves.

Script: Single hand, though the opening leaves are in a sharper style and the later leaves in a heavier thicker style of writing.

Corrections and Additions: Scribe’s correction on 4v framed with rough design in red. Running titles. 15/16th-century note (131v).

2nd fo.: 'secundum Matth’' or 'Orauit sanctus'.
Collation Analysis i(14) (lacks 2, 5, 7, 9, 11, 14) ii(14) (lacks 2, 3, 6, 10, 11, 14) iii(14) (lacks 1, 4, 6, 10, 12, 13) iv(14) (lacks 1, 4, 5, 9, 12, 13) v(14) (lacks 2, 3, 6, 10, 11, 14) vi(16) (lacks 1, 4, 6, 7, 9, 12, 14) vii(14) (lacks 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13) viii(14) (lacks 2, 3, 5, 9, 11, 14) ix(12) (lacks 2, 3, 5, 9, 12) x(14) (lacks 2, 3, 5, 9, 11, 14) xi(14) (lacks 2, 4, 6, 10, 12, 14) xii(14) (lacks 2, 4, 6, 10, 12, 14) xiii(14) (2, 3, 6, 10, 11, 14) xiv(12) (lacks 1, 5, 9, 11) xv(14) (lacks 2, 4, 6, 10, 12, 14) xvi(14) (lacks 1, 3, 6, 10, 11, 13) xvii(14) (lacks 2, 4, 7, 9, 12, 14). The large size of the book required the use of single leaves and bifolia for quires. Catchwords.
Decoration Initials red or blue; calligraphic initials, sometimes with flourishes in red and in the ink of the text: certain calligraphic initials flourished with head (6v, 7, 85v, 102); capitals marked with red. Catchwords framed with rough designs.
Binding Note Executed for the College 1741-1744 by the shop of John Exshaw in Dublin in speckled calf.
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Language Latin
Public Note For TCD MS 109 see W.H. Frere et al., 'Bibliotheca Musico-Liturgica', Plainsong and Medieval Music Society, 1901-1932, 2 volumes, no. 720; 'Analecta Hymnica Medii Aeui', edd. G.M. Dreves et al., Leipzig, (1886-1922), repr. (New York and London, 1961), 55 volumes, 11:93-94, 19:89-90, 141-142, 25:155, 175, 26:52, 273, 26:52; U. Chevalier, 'Repertorium Hymnologicum', (Louvain and Paris, 1892-1921), 6 volumes, no. 15048; W. O’Sullivan in 'Hermathena' no. 88 (1956) 53; G.E. Mohan in 'Franciscan Studies', n.s. 37 (1977) *254; A. Buckley, ‘Music and Musicians in Medieval Irish Society’, in Early Music 28 (2000) 187; A. Buckley, ‘Music in Ireland to c.1500’, in A New History of Ireland, volume 1, ed. D. Ó Cróinín, (Oxford, 2005) 790, 809, 812.
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