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Description
pp. 1-25 + 26-73 + 74-85 [Missal and Breviary, Mass and Office for Lawrence and for the Dead]: pp. 1-5: Mass for the feast of St. Lawrence; pp. 6-16: Kyrie, Gloria, Sanctus, Agnus Dei, Credo; pp. 16-41: Office of Lawrence; pp. 41-68: Office of the Dead, use of Rome; p. 69: Venite exultemus domino; pp. 70-72: blank; p. 73: Kyrie; pp. 74-85: Mass for the Dead. Mass and Office of Lawrence and of the Dead written on parchment in Italy in the fifteenth century; pages 26-73 added on paper in the eighteenth century. Span folios: pp. 1-25 (parchment) + 26-73 (paper) + 74-85 (parchment). Support: Paper and Parchment. Layout: 1⁴(-1) 2⁴(-3, 4; no loss of text) 3⁶(through p. 25) 4-9⁴ 10⁶(pp. 74-85). Ruled space, 265 x 165 mm; 6 lines of text and music, ruled in lead on the parchment leaves and in dry point on the paper leaves. Watermark(s): Watermark scarcely visible in the gutter. Written by 3 scribes: i, pp. 2-19 and 74-85 in a round gothic script; ii, pp. 20-25, in a round gothic script; iii, pp. 26-73 in a late humanistic script. Musical notation on red 4-line staves. The portion on paper, pp. 26-73, added in the eighteenth century. Eighteenth century pagination in red ink beginning on the verso of the first leaf and ending at 60; the following 5 leaves foliated in the same hand; the remaining leaves neither paginated or foliated. Pagination extended throughout the volume for consistency in this description. Decoration: Full page miniature on p. 1 (the verso of the first leaf, an added singleton) of Lawrence, with face badly rubbed, holding a book and his gridiron, on a gold and red background with a mosaic border. On p. 74, historiated initial in pink and yellow, depicting an insect-covered skeleton with a snake crawling through it. 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 in 1972 in quarter calf over wooden boards with a fore edge clasp; formerly bound in eighteenth century parchment. HM 1097. Huntington Library, San Marino, CA.
Extent
pp. 25 + 47 + 11 : paper and parchment ; 240 x 329 mm.
A catalogue description in French is affixed to the front pastedown; De Ricci states the manuscript to have been described in a German catalogue, ca. 1900. Date and source of acquisition by Henry E. Huntington unknown.
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