[Gregorian chant leaves]. [between 1587 and 1621]

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[Gregorian chant leaves]. [between 1587 and 1621]

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Three excised leaves from an antiphoner with chants in Latin for Second Vespers from feasts connected with the Virgin Mary, and for the Feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, on paper; 28 lines ruled in black ink: 4-line staves, 7 staves per leaf, square notation, custodes with extremely long tails are used; textualis rotunda script in black ink, rubrics in red. 13 4-line decorative initials in red ink; acidic black ink used has eaten through the paper in many places; folios 63 and 65 contain light water damage evidenced by the staining and blurring of ink; foliation on each leaves: script Arabic numerals in black ink (perhaps in a later hand?), right-hand top corner, recto side.

3 leaves of manuscript music ; 28 x 42 cm.

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The Order of Our Lady of Mount Carmel was founded in Palestine around 1154 by St. Berthold (d. about 1195) but it has claimed (without authentic documentation) continuity with hermits settled on Mount Carmel in earlier times, and even to be a direct descendant of Elijah and the "sons of the prophets" (cf. 2 Kgs. 2). The primitive rule as laid down in 1209 by Albert of Vercelli, Latin patriarch of Jerusalem, was one of extreme asceticism and solitude. Honorius III approved the definitive rule in ...