The San Diego Choir Book

This leather-bound choir book of plainchant measures 58 x 39 cms. It includes sixty-five vellum leaves handwritten in Southern Gothic script. It is illuminated by four historiated, major capitals, and one hundred and seven, major, medium and minor capitals decorated in geometric patterns. The manuscript contains two Masses commemorating the Immaculate Conception and the Patronage of St. Joseph as well as Latin hymns and prayers to be sung at Divine Office on the feasts of the Holy Name of Jesus, the Immaculate Conception, and the Patronage of St. Joseph. Propers for the feasts of Didicus of Alcala, Pascal Baylon, Colette, Catharine of Bologna are also included. The manuscript was bequeathed to Connecticut College by Cornelia Kissam Palmer in memory of her husband, Elisha Loomis Palmer, in 1926. The date of the manuscript is in question. The origin of the manuscript is Spanish.

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