Extent: fols. 72; parchment; 267 x 186 (205 x 132) mm bound to 284 x 197 mm
Former Owner(s):
François Veyrier
Confraternity of the Five Wounds at the Church of Saint-Pierre-La-Tour, Le-Puy-en-Velay
Bibliotheque Seminaire de Notre Dame de Puy
Note:
Layout: 1 column with eight lines of text and eight four-line red staves Script: Gothic bookhand Decoration: Majuscules within text touched in yellow, red rubrics, occasional red or blue initials equivalent to one line of text and music, three large blue initials, equivalent to 2 lines of text and music Binding: Contemporary early 16th-century brown calf over wooden boards, blind tooling with two sets of triple fillets framing a narrow outer border and a large rectangular center panel sub-divided into six vertical panels, all infilled with scrolling floral roll-stamps. Binding: Spine restored and rebacked with four raised bands, head- and tailbands, four metal corner pieces and central metal boss, back boss detatched, once closed with two strap and pin fastenings, straps missing. Speakers within the Passion narrative are identified by letters in red above the lines of text, contemporary with the manuscript; crosses have been added in brown ink (for example f. 1v, 9v, 17) by an early hand; a verse that was accidentally omitted in the text (Matthew 27:35) with musical notation was added in the margin of f. 16v in the seventeenth century. Provenance: Purchased from Les Enluminures, 2021 Provenance: Copied in France for Master François Veyrier, also known as Martelet, prior and member of the confraternity of the Five Wounds at the church of Saint-Pierre-la-Tour in Le Puy-en-Velay in south central France (Haute-Loire), and completed on May 27,1518 (see colophon f. 70v). Provenance: Saint-Pierre-la-Tour in Le Puy-en-Velay was a collegiate chapter of secular canons, rather than monks; located near the tower of the chancery, their church, dedicated to St. Peter, was also one of the parish churches in the city. Provenance: A large number of notes of ownership have survived on the flyleaves. The earliest, dated 1634, on the back flyleaf, records ownership by the brothers of Saint-Pierre-la-Tour du puy (back flyleaf, numbered f. 73: “Ce liure apartien a <expunged> des p[ier]re la tour du puy dapuril 1634”); Provenance: on the same leaf, another note records continued ownership by this collegiate church in 1650: “Est aux presbyteres de saint pierres la tour 1650.” Provenance: Inside front cover, there is a note dated 1657, when the manuscript was still at Saint- Pierre-la-Tour, “<C …?> Cure de sainct Pierre La Tour Lannee 1657”; with another ownership note below, “<?> sacerdotis.” Inside back cover, two staff lines with square notation; and above in red, “Martelet” (perhaps seventeenth century). Provenance: Front flyleaf, “passions notes”; “Ce sont liure de Passions appartien a leglize Sainct Pierre la Tour du puy <qui?> la trouuida”; and below “Passions in cantu”; and, “ …. 1631.” Provenance: The manuscript, no longer in the possession of Saint-Pierre-la-Tour, was purchased in 1757: back flyleaf (numbered as f. 73), “<?> 1754”; front flyleaf, “J’ai achete le present liure deux liures cinq sols a librairie de feu <expunged> M. Vital Saluc en 1757.” Provenance: Front fly leaf, f. i, library stamp of the Bibliothèque Seminaire de Notre Dame de Puy. This volume contains the chants for the Passion readings from the Gospels for Holy Week recalling the Passion, death, and burial of Jesus. The Passion of St. Matthew was chanted during Mass on Palm Sunday, that of St. Mark on Holy Tuesday, St. Luke on Holy Wednesday, and that of St. John on Good Friday. Passionals, as liturgical volumes with these contents are called, were never common liturgical volumes except in the Iberian Peninsula where they circulated in manuscript and print (Hardie, 1991, 2007). Previous shelfmark: Passions notées
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