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Canticles. Documents.

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Documents containing prayers or songs used in Christian worship that come from the Bible (other than Psalms) and other certain texts. Examples of these scriptural hymn texts are the Song of Moses from the Old Testament, the Benedictus from the New Testament, and the Lord's Prayer.

Found in 7 Collections and/or Records:

'Bohun Psalter' made in England in the late 14th-century for Eleanor de Bohun, Duchess of Gloucester.

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Identifier: Adv.MS.18.6.5
Scope and Contents The contents of the manuscript are as follows:(i) Calendar in black, blue and red (folio 3). Entries in red include Saints Edward (18 March) and Dunstan (19 May), `Depositio sancti Augustini` (26 May), ordination of St Gregory (3 September) and translations of Saints Hugh (6 October) and Edward (13 October).(ii) Office of the Blessed Virgin Mary for Advent (folio 9) and from Christmas to the Purification (folio 11 verso).(iii) Confession, attributed in the...
Dates: Late 14th century.

Brigittine psalter and hours, apparently written for an Italian convent., 1535.

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Identifier: MS.1904
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows.(i) Calendar, with entries for the Translation of St Bridget, 28 May, her Deposition, 23 July, and Canonization, 7 October. (Folio 1.)(ii) Rules for finding the date of Easter; in Italian as well as Latin. The date of the volume is given by the following: 'Nel presente anno del mille cinquecento trentacinque corrte laureo numero, xvi'. (Folio 7.)(iii) Psalter (folio 9); the seven canticles from Lauds for the week, Magnificat,...
Dates: 1535.

Metrical version of the Psalms, divided according to the Psalter of the Church of England.

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Identifier: MS.655
Scope and Contents

There are metrical versions of the canticles (Te Deum, Magnificat, etc.) at the beginning. At the end (folio 127 verso) some of the Psalms are repeated, some of them in alternative versions.

Dates: 18th century.

Perth Psalter, containing calendar, psalter, canticles, and litany.

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Identifier: MS.652
Scope and Contents Referred to as the Perth Psalter from the entry in the calendar on 3rd September, ‘Dedicacio ecclesie de Perth’.The calendar and the litany are based on the use of Sarum, with additional entries for Scottish Saints. There are several illuminated capitals, four of the larger of these are accompanied by full-page borders of conventional foliage. Accompanying the manuscript is a list of additions to the calendar in a later cursive hand which were brought out by chemical action by F...
Dates: Late 15th century.

Psalter of French provenance, written for a community of Dominican nuns., 2nd half of 15th century.

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Identifier: MS.7122
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows: (i) Psalter (folio 1); (ii) Canticles (folio 135 verso); (iii) Litany and supplications (folio 138); (iv) Vespers of the Dead, followed by the 'Commendatio Animae' and the 'Subvenite' (folio 142 verso) (folio 149 should precede folio 143); (v) Gospel according to St John, XIII-XVIII (folio 159).The margins of many leaves are defective; some of them have been supplied by means of fresh pieces of vellum. The extract from St John's Gospel is in a...
Dates: 2nd half of 15th century.

Psalter of Low Countries provenance., ?2nd half of 13th century.

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Identifier: MS.7123
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows: (i) Calendar (folio 1); (ii) Psalter (folio 15); (iii) Canticles of the Psalter, 'Confitebor' to 'Quicunque vult',and Magnificat (folio 186); (iv) Capitula and collects for the feast of St Lambert (folio 204). Lacking leaves after folios 91, 104, 203. Red and blue penwork initials. Some names including Saints Dominic and Donatus have been added in a later hand to the calendar; others, including some of the additional names, have been erased. The...
Dates: ?2nd half of 13th century.