Add MS 41507

ANTIPHONS, Responds, Hymns, etc., in Latin, compiled probably for use by Dominicans, mainly noted in square notation on a four-lined stave. In most cases there is close agreement between this MS. and the 13th-cent. Dominican office-book in Add. MS. 23935, as well as the Breviarium secundum ordinem sancti Dominici, printed by Anthonius Koberger, Nürnberg, I485. The most noteworthy items, with references to U. Chevalier, Repertorium Hymnologicum, are:-(i) St Peter Martyr (29 Apr.), antiphons and responds, no. 3646, ff. 2-8; hymns, nos. I0942, 435, 58I5, ff. II-14b;-(2) Spinea Corona (4 May), hymn, no. 679, ff. 8 b- II ; capitula, antiphons, etc., no. 6789, ff. I5-24;-(3) Hymn for the Invention of the Cross (3 May), no. I7875, ff. 24b-25b;-(4) Musical portions of the following offices, viz.:-(a) St Dominic (4 Aug.), no. 6795, ff. 26-37 b, 41-42 b; (b) Translation of St Dominic (24 May,), no. 369, somewhat curtailed, ff. 43-48; (c) St Lawrence (I0 Aug.), ff. 53-65; (d) St Augustine of Hippo (28 Aug.), ff. 73b-87; (e) All Saints (i Nov.), ff. 87 b-97; (f) St Martin of Tours (II Nov.), ff. 97 b- II2; (g) Assumption of the Virgin (I5 Aug.), ff. II6-I27; (h) Nativity of the Virgin (8 Sept.), ff. 127- I34 b; (i) Dedication of a church, ff. I98b-209; (j) St Michael (29 Sept.), ff. 209-2i9b;-(5) Proses and sequences for the following feasts, ff viz.:-(a) St Catharine of Alexandria (25 Nov.), prose, no. I8580, . 38-39 b; (b) Assumption of the Virgin (15 Aug.), sequence, no. I8052, ff. 48-52b; (c) Translation of St Dominic (24 May), sequence, no. 8547, ff. I35-I37b; (d) B.V.M., sequence, no. 7945, ff. 2I9b-22Ib; (e) All Saints (I Nov.), sequence, no. 7o8o, printed in Dreves, Analecta Hymnica Medii Aevi, viii, pp. 86, 87, ff. 22Ib-224b;-(6) Mass of the Dead, ff. 66-73;-(7) Hymns to the Trinity, no. I3829, ff. II4, II4b; Presentation of the Virgin (2I Nov.), no. 2135, f. II5b;-(8) Antiphons and responds for Sundays in August- November, ff. I38-i83;-(9) Antiphons for the Benedictus and the Magnificat for Ist-24th Sundays after Trinity, ff. I83-I98b. Vellum; ff. 226 (ff. I and 226 paste-downs). 6 in. x 4, in. XIV and XV centt. Written by a variety of hands, probably in Germany, where the MS. was in the I5th cent. (see rubrics in German on ff. 2, I8, 26, 4I, 43, 48, 53, 65b, 66, 73 b, 89, 97 b, II6, I35, I38). Gatherings mainly of 8 leaves (vi12 2 cancelled, vii14 I cancelled, viii"+ two inserted leaves, ff. 73, 74, XV8 7, 8 cancelled, xixI2 xvi 1, 2 cancelled, xvii10, xviiis + two inserted leaves, ff. I5I, I52, 2 cancelled, xxv6, xxvii2) numbered at the beginning in a 15th-cent. hand. Gathering xxv has been left unnumbered, consequently xxvi and xxvii are wrongly numbered xxv and xxvi. The leaves of the MS. are also numbered

in Roman numerals (I5th cent.). On f. i is the note 'Pit got fvr min elspet'. Binding (I5th cent.) of wooden boards covered with brown leather and decorated with a blind-tooled diagonal pattern, with remains of brass studs.