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ff. 1-217v. [Missal, use of Rome]. Latin. ff. 1-6v, Graded calendar; f. 7r-v [added in another hand], Exorcism; ff. 8-9v, Holy Water service; f. 10 [added], Service for the Bread of St. Nicholas of Tolentino; f. 10v, blank; ff. 11-91v, masses for the Temporale, Advent to Easter; ff. 91v-92v, Rubrics; ff. 92v-94v, Ordinary of the Mass; ff. 94v-95v, Mass of Raphael archangel; ff. 96-98v [different hand], Mass and prayers to exorcise a demon, with feminine forms suprascript; ff. 99-100v, Prefaces; ff. 101-104v, Canon of the Mass; ff. 104v-143, Temporale, Easter Sunday through the 24th Sunday after Pentecost; ff. 143-179v, Sanctorale, Andrew through Catherine; ff. 179v-196v, Common of Saints; ff. 196v-201v, Votive masses; ff. 201v-206, Masses for the Dead; ff. 206v-214v, Collect, secret and postcommunion of the votive masses; ff. 214v-217, Benedictions, ending"Explicit feliciter per me fratrem Ignatium de Mediolano ordinis heremitarum sancti Augustini 1476 die 12 novembris circa horam tertiam noctis tempore vicariatus Reverendi patris fratris Paulini de Mediolano. Laus deo, pax vivis et requies defunctis. Amen.". Title from printed catalog. Support: Parchment. Script: Quasi humanistic. Layout: 1⁶ 2⁴ 3-10¹⁰ 11⁸(through f. 98) 12¹⁰(-3) 13-23¹⁰. Catchwords in the center lower margin; those through quire 7 enclosed in a diamond formed of clusters of brown or red ink dots; the catchword for quire 8 in a brown ink rectangle; no signatures present. Ruled space, 146 x 110 mm for the text, and 165 x 130 mm for the calendar; 25 long lines; horizontal rules in light brown ink; vertical bounding lines apparently in lead point; no pricking visible. Music: Red and black notation; on ff. 73v, 90v in red and blue. Decoration: Thirty historiated initials. Assigned Date: s. XV4/4. Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 12/13/2009. Cataloged from existing description: C. W. Dutschke with the assistance of R. H. Rouse et al., Guide to Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Huntington Library (San Marino, 1989). Bound, s. XXin, in parchment; label of R. Friedländer & Sohn, Berlin on the front pastedown. HM 1042. Huntington Library, San Marino, CA.
Written in part, and completed in 1476, by Ignatius, an Augustinian Hermit of Milan, who signed his name on f. 217v. Ignatius is known to have witnessed three documents for his convent dated 1471, 1486 and 1489; see M. L. Gatti Perer,"Umanesimo a Milano: l'osservanza agostiniana all'Incoronata," Arte Lombarda n.s. 53-54 (1980) pp. 166-70, 192-95, 226-27 for the documents. For a history of the library of Santa Maria Incoronata and a list of 154 known manuscripts and incunables, including HM 1042, see M. Ferrari,"Un Bibliotecario milanese del Quattrocento: Francesco della Croce," Archivio Ambrosiano 42 (1981) 175-270. Apparently in Germany in modern times, where it was given its present binding. In pencil, on the front pastedown,"Catalogue Page 75." Date and source of acquisition by Henry E. Huntington unknown.
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