Beinecke MS 18 (olim Z109.232)                             France, s. XIV^^ex and 1578
Missal

     I.1. ff. 1r-40v    Temporale, principal masses of the liturgical year,
     winter season, with musical notation; rubrics for: In die Natiuitatis
     domini, In die epyphanie, In purificatione sancti marie uirginis,
     Dominica in ramis palmarum, In die pasche, In annuntiatione beate
     marie, In die Ascensionis domini, Missa de sancto spiritu, De sancta
     trinitate. Two staves for music at the bottom of f. 40v have not been
     filled.

     II.2. ff. 41r-47r    Common prefaces, with musical notation throughout.
     f. 47v blank

     III.3. ff. 48r-56v    Te igitur...; Canon of the Mass, parts with
     musical notation.

     4. ff. 57r-60v    Mass of the Virgin Mary, noted (rubric partly
     erased).

     5. ff. 60v-67v    Mass of the Dead, noted.

     6. ff. 67v-72v    Votive masses (collect, secret and post communion
     only): Pro defunctis in aniuersario, Pro episcopo uel sacerdote,
     Plurimorum episcoporum et sacerdotum, Vnius defuncti [two masses, for a
     man and for a woman, both with plural forms suprascript], Pro patre et
     matre, Pro sepulti [sic] in cymiterio, Pro congregatione, Pro
     benefactoribus, [Pro familiaribus].

     IV.7. ff. 73r-92r    Temporale, principal masses of the liturgical
     year, summer season, without musical notation; rubrics for: Missa de
     sacramento, De Assumptione beate marie, De natiuitate beate marie, In
     inuentione sancte crucis, In exaltatione sancte crucis, In festo omnium
     sanctorum, De sancto macuto episcopo et confessore, In dedicatione
     ecclesie.

     8. ff. 92r-94r    Gloria and Credo for principal and Marian feasts,
     with musical notation.

     9. ff. 94r-97v    1578. Missa de sancta christi lachrima.

     10. ff. 97v-100v    Missa nostre domine pietatis.

     11. ff. 100v-101v    Oratio ante missam dicenda a sacerdote. O
     dulcissime atque amantissime domine iesu christe quem nunc deuote
     desidero suscipere...amor corda purificans et intellectum illuminans.
     Amen.

     12. ff. 101v-102v    Oratio post sacram communionem. Aue sanctissima
     caro summa vita dulcedo...misericordia inenarrabili dignetur indulgere.
     Amen.

     13. flyleaf, after f. 102    Passages from Matthew (recto) and Wisdom
     (verso) in a modern cursive hand.

          Parchment, ff. ii (contemporary parchment) + 102 + i (modern
     parchment), 240 x 167 (172 x 110) mm. The manuscript is composed of
     four parts.
          I and III (ff. 1r-40v, 48r-72v): written in 16 long lines (the
     Canon in 14 lines); single horizontal and vertical bounding lines full
     across. Ruled in pale brown ink. Catchwords to right of inner bounding
     line. Written in liturgical gothic of two sizes, by one scribe. On f.
     48r, a 5-line historiated initial (65 x 58 mm.), white-decorated red
     and blue on a gold ground, enclosing a priest serving Communion; from
     the corners sprout blue vines with white, gold, and red trilobe leaves,
     extending around 3 sides of the page. On f. 1r, an 8-line illuminated
     initial of white-decorated blue and red (63 x 65 mm.), filled with blue
     and red trilobe leaves, on a gold ground; the base of the letter is
     extended around the inner and lower margins as a gold, blue, red, and
     white bounding line; from the lower two corners of this line and the
     upper left corner of the initial sprout vines, as for the historiated
     initial. 3- and 2-line initials in orange-tinted red or blue; rubrics
     throughout. Square notes in brown on 4-line orange-tinted red staves
     (the red ink has bled so that the whole written space has an orange
     glow).
          II and IV (ff. 41r-47v, 73r-102v) were intended to be integrated
     into the earlier portion: written in 7 long lines in II, where text is
     accompanied by musical notation throughout, and 18 long lines in IV,
     where no musical notation occurs. Ruled in pale brown ink with single
     bounding lines, full across. Catchwords right of center in lower
     margin. Written in liturgical gothic of the late 16th century, in two
     sizes by a single scribe; the letters slant slightly toward the left.
     4- to 1-line initials in red and blue. Rubrics are sometimes set off on
     the right side of the page by a narrow vertical border in brown.
     Musical notation: square notes on 4-line staves, all in brown.
          I-V^^8, VI^^8 (-1), VII^^9 (structure uncertain), VIII-X^^8, XI^^10
     (-3, 7), XII^^8, XIII^^6.
          Binding: 1981. Quarter cloth case, retaining brown mottled paper
     covered boards, s. xix. Traces of earlier bindings.

          Written in Northern France at the end of the 14th century (Parts
     I, III) and in 1578 (Parts II, IV; see art. 9); the prominence of St.
     Maclovius (Macutus) in art. 7 suggests that Parts II and IV were
     produced in Brittany or Normandy. Bought in Paris by Caroline M. Street
     in 1847 (signature and date on f. ii recto). Bookplate of Augustus
     Russell Street (inside front cover). Given to Yale by Mrs. Augustus
     Russell Street in 1868.

     secundo folio: populum

     Bibliography: De Ricci, v. 1, p. 165, no. 18.

Barbara A. Shailor