Beinecke MS 178                                                       Italy, s. XIV^^1
Antiphonal

     1. ff. 1r-235v    Proprium de tempore, for the full liturgical year.

     2. ff. 236r-245v    Ten settings for the Venite exultemus.

          Parchment, ff. ii (bifolium from a 17th-century antiphonary, with
     offices from the sanctorale) + 245 + ii (bifolium from the same 17th-
     century antiphonary), 512 x 355 (480 x 245) mm. Written in 10 long
     lines of text with staves, ruled in brown crayon; single vertical
     bounding lines full across. Prickings in lower margin.
          I-III^^8, IV^^6, V^^8, VI^^10, VII^^8, VIII^^10, IX-XIV^^8, XV^^10,
     XVI-XVII^^8, XVIII^^12 (-12, cut out after f. 151), XIX-XXII^^8, XXIII^^2,
     XXIV^^4, XXV^^6 (-6, cut out after f. 194), XXVI^^4, XXVII^^2
XXVIII-XXX^^8,
     XXXI^^8 (portion of f. 194v covered with paste-in), XXXII^^4 (-1 after f.
     235), XXXIII^^10. Catchwords centered in lower margin, verso.
          Written in two sizes of round liturgical gothic script by several
     scribes: Scribe 1, ff. 1r-235r; Scribe 2, f. 235r-v, and Scribe 3, ff.
     236r-245v.
          Three fine historiated initials, 4- to 2-line: ff. 32r (Nativity),
     152r (Three Marys at Tomb), and 179r (Pentecost); shaded pink and/or
     green, with blue, yellow, green and orange foliage and knots, with gold
     dots and orange frame; figures against blue ground. 3- to 2-line
     calligraphic initials, divided, red and blue with red penwork, with
     blue and red penwork flourishes. 1-line initials red or blue with blue
     or red penwork, sometimes with black and green; some initials with
     guide-letters in outer margin. 1-line initials with yellow. Square
     notes on 4-line red staves. Rubrics throughout, with notes to
     rubricator in margins. One very crude 4-line initial (s. xvii) on f.
     1r, in red, yellow, blue, green and purple.
          Binding: s. xviii. Rebound in brown cowhide [?], blind-tooled,
     with numerous metal bosses. Pastedowns from the same 17th-century
     antiphonary used as flyleaves.

          Written in Italy, probably Florence in the 1330's, according to C.
     Gilbert; early provenance unknown. Bought in 1933 from C. A. Stonehill by
     Thomas E. Marston; his gift to Yale in 1953.

     secundo folio: iam totam

     Bibliography: Faye and Bond, p. 37, no. 178.

     Barbara A. Shailor