Collection ID: 0002 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

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Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9977869339603681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1242577402

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Origin

Date

between 1175 and 1225

Summary

Bifolium from a late 12th- or early 13th-century antiphonary, probably written in northern France. The bifolium is from a quire in the Sanctorale cycle, mostly consisting of the beginning and ending of chants In dedicatione ecclesiae (for the dedication of the church; at least one bifolium is missing between the facing leaves of this bifolium), preceded by chants for the feast of the Decollation of John the Baptist (August 29) and followed by chants for the feast of the Nativity of the Virgin Mary (September 8). 11 lines of neumes arranged on a staff above chant text written in Gothic textualis script now remain on each page; probably one line of musical notation and text is missing at the bottom of each page due to damage. The staves are ruled in drypoint but the F-line of each staff is ruled in red ink. In six places where the scribe resets the placement of the F-line, four small letters are written in a column to indicate the pitch values of the staff. Three simple decorative initials in red, initials at the beginning of chants touched with red, and rubrics in red. The bifolium was probably used as a wrapper or as endleaves.

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Provenance

• Sold by Justin Croft Antiquarian Books (Faversham, England), Paris 2020 catalog, item 18.
   

Subjects topical

• Gregorian chants--Manuscripts

Genres

• Fragments (object portions)
• Antiphonaries
• Gregorian chants
• Manuscripts, Latin--12th century
• Manuscripts, Latin--13th century
• Manuscripts, Medieval

Keywords

• Antiphonary
• 12th century
• 13th century
• French
• Fragment
• France
• Liturgy

Licenses

• Text

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — [Decollation of John the Baptist (partial)]
• fol. 1r — [In dedicatione ecclesiae (partial)]
• fol. 2v — [In nativitate sancte Marie (partial)]