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Processional of the cathedral Notre-Dame de Paris...

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Processional of the cathedral Notre-Dame de Paris One volume in folio (34 x 21,5 x 3,5 cm). Bound in full granite calf; two gilt fillets framing the boards; seven-ribbed spine, gilt fleuron on the caissons; speckled edges. Binding of the XVIIth century. First board detached; three upper caissons stripped. Interior: 1 binder's bifeuillet (the first ƒ glued to the back cover). 86 ƒƒ (the last ƒ glued to the counterfoil); the last two ruled but blank of text. Notebooks: 2 (unencrypted blanks, the first one pasted down) + 6 (ƒƒƒ1-6) + 6 (ƒƒƒ 7-12) + 6 (ƒƒƒ 13-18) + 8 (ƒƒƒ19-26) + 8 (ƒƒƒ 27-34) + 8 (ƒƒƒ 35-42) + 8 (ƒƒƒ 43-50) + 8 (ƒƒƒ 51-58) + 8 (ƒƒƒ 59-66) + 8 (ƒƒ 67-74) + 8 (ƒƒƒ 75-82) + 4 (83-84, 1 ƒ blank unencrypted, 1 ƒ blank laminated). Total: 88 leaves: 1x2; 3x6; 8x8; 1x4. Parchment leaves (330 x 210 mm); justification 232 x 123 mm; 18 long lines per page; Roman script in brown ink, headings in red. Paris, second quarter of the 16th century (with rare reports of elements from the second quarter of the 15th century). LITURGICAL DISTRIBUTION [Blessing and exorcism of water] ƒ 1. Benedictio aquê que fit diebus dominicis. [Procession to Saint John the Round, Our Lady] ƒ 3 v°. Quando processio debet ire apud sanctum iohannem rotundum, nostram dominam in ciuitate, et capellam beatê mariê in portallo, tunc sacerdos ad aquilam orationem sequentem. ƒ 4. Apud sanctum iohannem rotundum oratio . ƒ 4 v°. Apud nostram dominam oratio In capella portalli oratio. ƒ 5. In introitu portê maioris ecclesiê dicat sacerdos submissa voce. ƒ 5 v°. Quando fit memoria de cruce in naui ecclesiê. Postea ad aquilam memoria de sancto stephano altiori voce. Office of the catechumens ƒ 6 v°. Incipit officivm ad catecuminos faciendos, sacerdos stans ante ostium. Domincis diebus ab octobis pasque usque ad ascensionem domini in predictus locis [Visitation of the infirm for extreme unction]. ƒ 17 v°. Incipit ordo qvo modo uisitandi sunt infirmi in extrema unctione. ƒ. 27. Litany with St. Mary, St. Stephen, St. Peregrin (1st bishop of Auxerre), Mammes of Langres, Gervais, Prothais, Amator of Auxerre, Germain, Loup of Troyes, and Genevieve. [Office of the recommendation of the soul] ƒ 37. Incipit officium commendationis animê. Burial of the dead . ƒ 41 v°. De sepultura mortuorum. finita missa pro defunctis corpore presente sacerdos deposita infula indutus capa serica negra cum diacono et subdiacono, aqua benedicta cereis et rucibus uadat ad caput feretri, et ibi sine ... dicat. Anniversaries. ƒ 51. In anniuersario domini. Post missam, sacerdos deposita infula, et indutus capa serica, cum aqua benedicta cereis crucibus chorariis et quatuor canonicis in capis sericis cum dyacono ad aquilam. Primo sacerdos aspergat et thurificet tumbam ... ƒ 54 v°. Et isto modo debet fieri in anniuersariis episcoporum nostrorum in choro sepultorum : in quorum anniuersariis dicitur commendatio animarum. Matins. ƒ 54 v°. In matutinis defunctorum. ƒ 60: Feria quinta in cêna domini ad matutinas. ƒ 62 v°. Feria VI in parasceve ad matut. ƒ 65 v°. Sabbato sancto in uigilia pasche ad matutinas Holy Saturday. ƒ 69. Sabbato sancto (title alone, on a blank page). ƒ 69 v°. Sabbato in uigilia pasche sic incipit seruitium. ƒ 70 v°. Benedictione ignis facta redeunt processionaliter et in excitu chori sancti iohannis, pueri hunc hymnus incipiunt ... Et procedunt cantando usque dum perueniant anta altare maioris ecclesiê. ƒ 76 v°. Benedictione cerei facta, legatur prima lectio a maiore personna vidilicet. ƒ 77. Hac oratione dicta incipitur letania ad aquilam a regentibus chorum.... Vadit processio cum toto collegio, et cereo benedicto cantando letaniam apud sanctum iohannem pro fontibus benedicendis. ƒ 82. Hic aspiret fontes ter in modum crucis ƒ 82 v°. Hic ponatur cereus ter in aquam in modum crucis ƒ 83 v°. His dictis, ponatur aqua benedicta in urceo : et sacerdos capiat ysopum, et uadat ad aspergendum altare sancti iohannis : postea aspergat totum collegium. Quo facto, uadat sacerdos et stet ad fontes in loco suo : et regentes chorum incipiant secundam letaniam : & cum peruentem fuerit ad hunc uersum. Sancte iohannes baptista. or. et illum bis dixerint recedat processio, & uadat cantando letaniam in ecclesia maiori. Et postq~ intrauerint chorum, uadat sacerdos cum diachono subdiachono, crucibus et cereis in reuestiario pro infula induenda succentore solo ut cantet tertiam letaniam ad aquilam remanente : induta infula procedat processionaliter sacerdos ad altare. MUSICAL STAVES Musical staves at ƒƒ 37 r°-v°,