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<p>Bryn Mawr College Library, MS 54. Poissy?, France, Late 15th or early 16th century. This manuscript is a Sequentiary (Prosar) for Dominican Use from the late fifteenth or early sixteenth century, probably copied in the royal convent of Saint-Louis in Poissy, France. It contains texts and musical notation for sequences, chants sung at the Mass between the Alleluia and the reading of the Gospels. The chants are arranged to follow the Temporal (fols. 1r-30r) and Sanctoral (fols. 30r-133v) cycles, with additional chants and prayers at the end of the volume, with feminine forms used in two of the prayers (fols. 172r, 175r). The latest canonization reflected in the Sanctoral cycle is Catherine of Siena, canonized in 1461 (fols. 57r-59v); Antoninus of Florence, canonized in 1524, is not included. The Sanctoral cycle also includes sequences for the Dominican saints Dominic, Peter Martyr, and Thomas Aquinas, and two sequences for Saint Louis, founder of Poissy. A few interlinear translations and marginal notations in French have been added by later hands (fols. 87r-91r, 94r, 95v).
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<br>Subjects: 15th century; 16th century; French</div>
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