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Liturgical chant folium from a Northern Italian antiphoner

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Evanston, IL, Northwestern University, Music Library, MSS 1600 (NW-L1-3)

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

General Information

Title Liturgical chant folium from a Northern Italian antiphoner
Shelfmarks Evanston, IL, Northwestern University, Music Library, MSS 1600 (NW-L1-3)
Page/Folio Reference f. 1r–v
Material Parchment
Place of Origin Northern Italy
Date of Origin 14th century
Script, Hands

Gothic formal book hand
General Remarks

This fragment is a single vellum folio from a dismembered 14th-century Northern Italian antiphoner. It preserves chants for the feast of Corpus Christi, including antiphons, responsories, and verses. The text and music are written in a Gothic hand, with black square notation on red four-line staves. Rubrics are executed in red, with pen-flourished initials in red and blue marking textual divisions. The chants include Memor sit Dominus sacrificii nostri, Paratur nobis mensa domini, Panis quem ego dabo caro mea est pro mundi vita, and Cenantibus illis accepit Iesus panem.

Book Decoration and Musical Notation

Description

Alternating red and blue initials with contrasting pen flourishes; red rubrication and ruling throughout.
  • Musical Notation

    Black square notation on a four-line red staff (tetragram).
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