New Chant Facsimile L’ “Antiphonarium letaniarum” ambrosiano del 1492 Milan, Biblioteca dell’Università Cattolica del S. Cuore, ms. catt. 5 _________________________________________ L’ “Antiphonarium letaniarum” ambrosiano del 1492. A cura di Giacomo Baroffio e Eun Ju Kin e una presentazione di Ellis Sada. Lucca, 2008. 20.5 x 28 cm, xxxiii, 150 pp. Hardbound. $280 _________________________________________ Deluxe full-color reproduction of a late 15th-c. Ambrosian processional. This beautifully executed "Antiphonale of the Litanies" in characteristic Ambrosian script was acquired by Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in 1970, gift of Father Oblati di Rho. It contains the antiphons of the Rogation week according to the Milanese ritual, a complex liturgical intinerary celebrated on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday after Ascension, that is, at the beginning of the week preceeding Pentecost. The liturgy provided the singing of the antiphons during the processional itinerary where both congregation and clergy participated. The procession lasted 3 days and went to 30 churches; 13 churches during the first day and 11 and 12 (or 14) the following days. |
St. Ambrosio (fol. 3)
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| The
book was written
in 1492 by Antonio de Lampugnano, commissioned by Cristoforo de
Camponibus, a canon of S. Maria della
Scala. The
later provided to include the
music
according to the canonic calligraphy of the gothic Lombard notation
used exclusively in the liturgical Ambrosian books. The
only
historiated miniature, at the beginning of the litanies, shows St.
Ambrosio seated with the mitre and pallium. Two
miniatures signal the beginning of the second and third days of the
litanies. The topographic index confirms the
local character of the chants. The majority of them are transmitted
solely in the books of the Ambrosian rite; few are common
with the Roman tradition and probably derived from it. distributed by: OMI -Old Manuscripts & Incunabula PO Box 6019 FDR Station, New York NY 10150 tel/fax 212/ 758-1946 http://www.omifacsimiles.com • immels@earthlink.net | |