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ERRATUM: Liturgical manuscript probably intended for a Dominican sister of the abbey of Poissy and belonging, according to the arms on f. 3, to the Perdu family, originally from the region. OFFICE DES MORTS - PROCESSIONAL FOR THE USE OF THE DOMINICAN ABBEY OF POISSY France (Poissy), 15th century In Latin, illuminated manuscript on parchment. 145 ff., 1f. bl. free of paper, at least one quire missing between f.34 f. 35 : i2, ii-viii8, ix9 [10-1, of which the tenth quire is missing], x-xii8, xiii2, xiv-xvi8, xvii2, xviii8, xix6, xx2, xxi2 ; 183 x 122 mm. (117 x 69 mm.); on parchment; 24 long lines in carbon ink; rules in red ink; a few advertisements, numbering of quires in inner margin (sometimes hidden in quire seam); textualis formata; headings, line ends in blue and red ink, initials framed in black ink of one line underlined with yellow ink or on three lines with framing in yellow ink sometimes grotesque (profile of a man), range of four lines in red ink with square neumatic notation watermarked initials in blue or gold ink, large initials painted blue or red on gold background on one to four lines, some with antennae finished with gold or blue vine leaves, until sometimes forming a superb frame of vine leaves and gold shields (f.3 and 34v), a historiated initial "D" introducing the office of the dead on f. 3r (Job on a dung heap mocked by his wife and one of his sons, 38 x 41 mm.), bird (hawk) in the frame in the outer margin and painted arms in the lower margin of the same leaf. Full 17th or 18th century black morocco, five-ribbed spine with decoration on the entrenerfs, boards decorated with a central motif in the "Du Seuil" style with three filleted borders, gilt border on the edges, gilt edges, marbled paper endpapers, spine ends and corners slightly rubbed, a worm hole on the upper board; good condition (190 x 130 mm). Liturgical manuscript probably intended for a Dominican sister of the abbey of Poissy and belonging, according to the arms on f. 3, to the Sautereau family, lords of Moirans, a noble family of the diocese of Grenoble who participated in the Hundred Years' War (battle of Verneuil, 1424) and in the Italian Wars (battle of Fornoue, 1495). This elegant pocket processional was copied for use at the 15th century Royal Abbey of Poissy (now called Prieuré SaintLouis de Poissy), founded by Phillipe IV in 1304 in honor of his grandfather Saint Louis; he then entrusted the place to Dominican nuns. The links with the royal family lasted for centuries and the abbey was even chosen in 1561 for an unsuccessful attempt at reconciliation between Catholics and Protestants known today as the "Colloque de Poissy" (see S. Moreau-Rendu, 1968). The bibliography on manuscripts from the abbey now lists 31 processionals. Joan Naughton, in her study, had first identified twenty-seven of them and thirty-one are now known. Our manuscript is not listed. The volume contains the office of the dead for the use of the Dominicans and a processional with a set of orations dedicated to Dominican use (several processions for St. Dominic and Corpus Christi) and others for the use of the abbey (St. Louis (to whom the abbey was dedicated) and the last two processions were specific to Poissy. There is also a procession dedicated to the purification of the abbey's altars (ff. 48v-49). Although a significant number of the rubrics have masculine forms, several other rubrics and chants refer to the "sorores" of the abbey (see f.97: In professione sororum). TEXT - ff. 1-2v, Late 17th century addition (period of binding?), staves with square neumatic notation of responsa, versicles and antiphons. - ff. 3-34, Office des morts à l'usage des Dominicains (see Knud Ottosen, The Responsories and Versicles of the Latin Office of the Dead [Aarhus, 1993] 108-109, and 239-242), staves with square neumatic notation of responds, versicles and antiphons. - ff. 34v-35, Penitential psalms [missing end], rubr. secuntur septem psalmi penitentiales - ff. 35-97v, Processional with musical notations [missing beginning], rubr, Postea aspergatur aqua benedicta, followed by rubr. in processione antiennea, with the blessing of the ashes (f. 39v); Palm Sunday (f. 42v); rubr. feria quinta in cena domini... due sorores ante gradus altare... (f. 48); rubr, Ordo altarium abluendorum (f. 49); Dominic and Peter (f. 59), Louis (f. 49v, f. 90); John the Baptist (f. 60v); Corpus Christi (f. 81v); Nativity of St. John the Baptist (f. 83v) Dominic (f. 85v); Nativity of Mary (f. 92); f. 94, rubr, In solenni receptione conventus dicatur de beata virgine...; f. 94v, rubr. in receptione legatorum et prelatorum; f. 95v, rubr. in receptione secularium principium; f. 97, rubr. in profession
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