[Carthusian Anthiphonary with cantorinus and calendar]

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Authors: Catholic Church, Newberry Library (joint owner.)
Other Authors: Bonaventura, da Brescia, active 1489-1497
Format: Musical Score Book
Language:Latin
Italian
Created: [Italy, ca. 1597]
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. fol. 1r-6v: Calendar.
  • 2. fol. 7r-8v: "Tabula festorum mobilium" table to determine dates of movable feasts, 1597-1680.
  • 3. fol. 9r: Chart demonstrating the tonal relationships among the eight modes of music.
  • 4. fol. 9v: Chart demonstrating the use of the principal clefs.
  • 5. fol. 10r: Gamut chart demonstrating the tonal relationships among hexachords.
  • 6. fol. 10v-16v: Compendium musices.
  • 7. fol. 17r-22r: Invitatories for the year, including one for the dedication of a church.
  • 8. fol. 22v: blank
  • 9. fol. 23r-31v: Variations on the invitatory "Venite exultemus domino," Psalm 94.
  • 10. fol. 32r-69r: Chants for the Divine Office, Sundays and feasts of the Temporale, Advent through the octave of Corpus Christi, then Sundays after Pentecost, August through November.
  • 11. fol. 69r-133v: Chants for the Divine Office, feasts of the Sanctorale, from the Conversion of Paul through the end of the Common of Saints.
  • 12. fol. 133v-134r: Variations on the Gloria Patri, one for each of the eight modes.
  • 13. fol. 134v-149v: Chants of the Divine Office, Sunday through Saturday.
  • 14. fol. 150r-150v: Italian paraphrase of Bonaventura de Brescia Regula musice plane.
  • 15. fol. 151r-152v: Sequence of chant for the commemoration of the community, including prayers to the Virgin, St. John the Baptist, St. Jerome, and St. Bruno.
  • 16. fol. 153r-154v: Singing exercises "De octo Tonis regularibus" and "Modus cantandi in Matutinis"
  • 17. fol. 155r-157v: Miscellaneous chants, including the collect for Good Friday, "Oremus dilectissimi nobis" and "Credo quod redemptor meus vivit" from the Office of the Dead.
  • 18. fol. 158r: index.
  • 18. fol. 158v-159v: blank