Tags:nLittera ScriptannNotes:n"...including music notation in neumes. nnProvenance:nThere is little doubt that the leaf has a Germanic origin and that it is mid-twelfth century in date. One feature of this leaf enables it to be more specifically attributed. This is the style of the ampersand and the letter 'g' which are exactly the same as on the leaf that was Lot 1 of the Korner sale at Sotheby's, 19th June 1990. That leaf was attributed to the workshop that supplied manuscripts for St. Peter's Abbey in Salzburg during the period 1147-1167. The scribe of this leaf may either have worked in this workshop, or very close to it. One noted authority has suggested the leaf may be of Austrian origin.nnVerso: n26 lines of text in Latin written in dark brown ink in one column on parchment. A fine mid-12th century proto-gothic script in two sizes, rubrics in red. The Verso is decorated with ten initials of various sizes in bright red. There are no signs at all that the leaf has been ruled. There is a sewn repair to the vellum in the inside margin that was made before the leaf was written on which the scribe has carefully avoided. 11 lines include music notation in St Gall neumes (see Notes). The responses, versicles and antiphons (in the smaller script) are setto music using neumes written without staves. Where words of the chant are split to relate to the melody of the neumes, the parts are connected by red lines.nnRecto:nAs Verso with a further six lines with music notation and four red initials. At the top of Recto is a folio number CCXXXIII in a 13th or 14th century hand.nnSource:nProbably Southern Germany, Salzburg, but possibly Austria (see Provenance).nThis leaf has presumably been used as a cover for a later pastedown. A fold can be seen down the outside edge and all four edges have been trimmed, presumably to remove unsightly damage. The parchment is browned and there is a degree of surface dirt but overall the leaf is in remarkably good condition for its extreme age.,Measurements (w/o matboards): 30.75 cm x 16.5 cmnMeasurements (w/ matboards): 49 cm x 33.5 cm,Full pdf available, https://dl.mospace.umsystem.edu/mu/islandora/object/mu%3A439223/datastream/PDF/view

Information about the book: This originally untitled manuscript was written by five unnamed Protestant priests during the Reformation.,Title note: This title was created by cataloger.,Information about the page: The page features a messy handwritten calligraphy, with marginal notes. There is a slight yellowing throughout, but the ink is very visible.

Vellum leaf, with text written in brown ink and headings in red or marked or reinforced with red. Large carolingian hand. 28.7 x 20.2 cm (Includes description by Prof. Marvin Colker, Dept. of Classics, University of Virginia, Charlottesville. The fragment is stored on a binder from The Schoyen Collection, MS 634.

"A VELLUM MANUSCRIPT BIFOLIUM, WITH ILLUMINATING REMNANTS OF AN HISTORIATED INITIAL, FROM A LARGE MISSAL IN LATIN. (Germany, 15th century) Slightly irregular, but approximately 14 x 20." Rubrics in red, capitals struck with red, seven small and 11 large initials in red, and the remnants of a large (54 x 52 mm.) historiated initial of St. Peter (see discussion, below). Recovered from a binding, so with a few small holes, slight wrinkling, and overall browning, that part of the text written in brown ink on the inner two pages indistinct (about half of it legible), but the text of the outer pages quite readable (and all of the red paint well preserved), inner pages rather spotted, but still an appealing item as a revealing specimen despite its defects.nnMoisture from the glue used in binding has faded or effaced much of the text on the inner pages here, and it appears to have taken away all but a tiny vestige of (red) paint used for the initial. But this loss provides us with a significant gain because it enables us to see the illuminator's technique in an especially memorable way. The areas within the initial's rectangle that would have been gold are clearly indicated by a terra cotta color that marks the presence of gesso, a thick substance usually composed of plaster, chalk, or gypsum bound together with a glue, the mixture used as a ground for gilding because it formed a raised adherent surface ideal for burnishing (the raised surfaces are pronounced on the present leaf). The same terra cotta color is seen in several small disks at the top and along the left margin, which were no doubt the ground for gold bezants, probably as part of an elaborate scrolling decorative painted border (there are significant remnants of gold adhering to the gesso in the initial, but not in the border decoration). At least as important, the disappearance of the paint from the initial has exposed the careful and rather elaborate underdrawing in brown ink for the figure of St. Peter. The recto of the leaf on the left side concludes the sanctoral cycle of the ecclesiastical year with Mass propers for the feasts of Chrysogonus (24 November) and Catherine of Alexandria (25 November). A rubric at the bottom of the second column announces the incipit of the common of saints, beginning with the Mass for the vigil of the feast of an apostle, the text of which follows on the verso beneath the initial depicting St. Peter. What can be identified on the conjugate leaf is the common for the feast day of a confessor bishop.",Full pdf available, https://dl.mospace.umsystem.edu/mu/islandora/object/mu%3A439433/datastream/PDF/view

"114 x 210 mm. (4 1/2 x 8 1/4)." Single column, nine lines of text with neumes, written in two sizes of an extremely fine romanesque book hand. Rubrics in red capitals, large capitals in red. Marginal annotations in an early (but not contemporaneous) hand. Recovered from bindings, so somewhat yellowed, one leaf with elongated worming (not affecting text), one side of one leaf mostly obscured by binder's glue, but one leaf entirely legible, and both rather well preserved, especially given their history.nnAmong the texts included here are Mass texts (1) for Ash Wednesday, (2) for the Thursday after Ash Wednesday (Isaias 38:3-6) and the Gospel of Matthew 8:5-13 (though the scribe has mistakenly written John), and (3) for the Friday after Ash Wednesday (including Isaias 58:6-8).",Full pdf available, https://dl.mospace.umsystem.edu/mu/islandora/object/mu%3A439458/datastream/PDF/view

"...including music notation in neumes.nnProvenance:nnThere is little doubt that the leaf has a Germanic origin and that it is mid-twelfth century in date. One feature of this leaf enables it to be more specifically attributed. This is the style of the ampersand and the letter 'g' which are exactly the same as on the leaf that was Lot 1 of the Korner sale at Sotheby's, 19th June 1990. That leaf was attributed to the workshop that supplied manuscripts for St. Peter's Abbey in Salzburg during the period 1147-1167. The scribe of this leaf may either have worked in this workshop, or very close to it. One noted authority has suggested the leaf may be of Austrian origin.nnVerso:nn26 lines of text in Latin written in dark brown ink in one column on parchment. A fine mid-12th century proto-gothic script int wo sizes, rubrics in red. The Verso is decorated with ten initials of various sizes in bright red. There are no signs at all that the leaf has been ruled. There is a sewn repair to the vellum in the inside margin that was made before the leaf was written on which the scribe has carefully avoided. 11 lines include music notation in St Gall neumes (see Notes). The responses, versicles and antiphons (in the smaller script) are setto music using neumes written without staves. Where words of the chant are split to relate to the melody of the neumes, the parts are connected by red lines.nnRecto:nnAs Verso with a further six lines with music notation and four red initials. At the top of Recto is a folio number CCXXXIII in a 13th or 14th century hand.nnSource:nnProbably Southern Germany, Salzburg, but possibly Austria (see Provenance)."nnThis leaf has presumably been used as a cover for a later pastedown. A fold can be seen down the outside edge andall four edges have been trimmed, presumably to remove unsightly damage. The parchment is browned and there is a degree ofsurface dirt but overall the leaf is in remarkably good condition for its extreme age.,Measurements: 25.5 cm x 16 cm,Full pdf available, https://dl.mospace.umsystem.edu/mu/islandora/object/mu%3A439463/datastream/PDF/view

"THREE ILLUMINATED VELLUM MANUSCRIPT LEAVES, FROM A GRADUAL IN LATIN. (Germany, 14th[?] century) 16 x 11 1/2." Nine lines each of music on a four-line red stave and of text in a thick, humpbacked gothic hand. Rubrics in red, typically three large initials painted in red with yellow wash, three of the leaves WITH additional complex INITIALS in black and red CONTAINING WHIMSICAL FACES, Minor soiling, other trivial defects, but generally in quite excellent condition.nnThe text here is in a curious hand that contains elements looking very much like the "hufnagal" notation that characterizes many German manuscript choir books (but, ironically, not this one); the letters "m," "n," and "i" look like so many cloves standing in an upright row.",Full pdf available, https://dl.mospace.umsystem.edu/mu/islandora/object/mu%3A439365/datastream/PDF/view

FOUR VERY EARLY ILLUMINATED VELLUM MANUSCRIPT LEAVES, FROM AN ANTIPHONARY IN LATIN WITH NEUMES. PART OF THE TEXT FROM THE FEAST OF ST. AGATHA. (Germany[?], 12th century, probably before 1150) 11 x 7 1/2." Single column, 20 lines of text with neumes in a pleasing romanesque hand. Rubrics in red capitals, one-, two- and three-line capitals in brown or red. Recovered from bindings, so a bit darkened, somewhat stained in places, and peppered with very many small round wormholes; nevertheless, all but one page entirely legible (and the sense of the text on that page only slightly compromised). As in the previous two items, the neumes here are "in camp aperto" and adiastematic. Among the texts included on these four leaves are antiphons and responsories for Matins on the feast of the Purification (2 February), antiphons for the feast of Saint Agatha (5 February), and antiphons for the ninth, 10th, and 11th Sundays after Pentecost." Antiphonary, from the Feast of St. Agatha