Northern Textualis

The only chant that is identifiable - ending on the back turn in - is a responsory associated with St Augustine (Cantus ID 600022), followed by a rubric for a verse.

The parchment is darkened and stained, and text is very rubbed off. Some flattened-out fold lines suggest the fragment was perhaps used for a different binding before it was joined with Herlufsholm 578.4

At least one large red initial and one heavy black and red cadel are discernible.

The host volume belonged to Herlufsholm Skole, a private Latin school located in Næstved, Sealand founded in 1565 on the grounds of a secularised Benedictine monastery, St Peders Kloster. The old library of Herlufsholm was transferred to the University Library of Southern Denmark in 1968-69.

This book is part of a tranche of books acquired by Peder Pedersen Hie, who was rector of Herlufsholm between 1610-13. It bears a spine label with the letters BVH for Bibliotheca Vetus Hienniae as well as an early 17th century inscription reading liber scholae Herlovianae.

The binding is a long-stitch binding without boards. It is somewhat unusual among fragment bindings in the Herlufsholm Collection, where the most common type of (reused) parchment binding structure is the laced-case binding. The paper sheet that was originally the back pastedown is lost. The volume was restored by bookbinder Axel Pedersen (A.P. Kons.) in 1976 according to a stamp on the back endleaf.