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Small liturgical chant fragments

F-03hm

Evanston, IL, Northwestern University, Music Library, MS 1600 (NW-S2-6)

Paul Feller-Simmons, DACT, 2025 (Born Digital)

General Information

Title Small liturgical chant fragments
Shelfmarks Evanston, Northwestern University, Music Library, MS 1600 (NW-S2-6)
Former Shelfmarks Small Box 2
Page/Folio Reference Fragments 1–4 (no original foliation preserved)
Material Parchment
Date of Origin ca. 1000–1200
Script, Hands

Fragment 3: Caroline minuscule with vestigial Luxeuil-style forms (notably in r and c).

Fragments 1–2: Caroline-related minuscule of somewhat later date, more rounded and regular, with abbreviated rubrication.

Fragment 4: too damaged for analysis; only musical traces survive.
General Remarks

Four heavily damaged parchment fragments, cut down, preserving liturgical chant for the Office of St. Paul. Infrared analysis of Fragment 3 shows verdigris pigment glow; transmitted light reveals text alignment front to back. The notational evidence includes both early adiastematic neumes and later staff-based tetragram notation.

Book Decoration and Musical Notation

  • Musical Notation

    Fragments 1–3: Adiastematic campo aperto neumes (staffless notation).

    Fragment 4: Traces of black tetragram notation; too incomplete to reconstruct.
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