Cantus monastici formula noviter impressa
Subtitle: ac in melius redacta : cui que deerant adjuncta : que vero superflua videbantur adempta sunt: cum tono lame[n]tationis hieremie prophete & aliquibus aliis cantibus mensuratis ipsi tempori co[n]gruis
Contributors: Bates, Joshua, 1788-1864, former owner, donor; Gunta, Luca-Antonio, 1457-1538, printer
Publisher: In officina Luceantonii Junte flore[n]tini
Published: 1535
Place of publication: Venetiis excusus
Language: lat
Number of pages: 92
Subjects: Early works to 1800; Gregorian chants; Holy Week music; Religious Processions
Other titles: Monastic formula
Work titles: Directorium chori (Benedictine, Montecassino Congregation)
Notes: Colophon title: Cantorinus & processionarius per totu[m] annu[m] in divinis officiis celebrandis s[ecundu]m ritu[m] co[n]gregationis cassine[n]sis alias sancte Justine ordinis sancti benedicti diligentissime co[m]positus & ordinatus cu[m] multis in eo de novo appositis.

Plainsong notation; polyphonic music (2 voices), fols. 54v-62r.

Rubricated.

Printed in red and black ink.

Signatures: A-Źı [chíþ]

Edition statement transposed from colophon.

Also available on microfilm in the Boston Public Library Music Department.

Gift: Joshua Bates; 18590915.

In Latin.

Catalogued 20151123 bhealy

Boston Public Library (Allen A. Brown Collection) copy bound in black leather over boards. Front and back covers include border and center decorative devices in gilt. Spine includes binder's title in gilt. Front pastedown includes (indecipherable) autograph in black ink script, along with donor's ex libris (bookplate) of the Boston Public Library identifying copy as a gift of Joshua Bates, received on September 15, 1859. Printed on antique laid paper with vertical chainlines, horizontal wire lines, and watermark present at head-/spine-edge. Title page includes printers' device, and embossed stamp of the Boston Public Library. Rear pastedown includes partial label of the Boston Public Library detailing circulation regulations, and ink stamp reading "JUN 28 1978".