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Gradual

chants for the 17th and 18th Sundays after Whitsun

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Odense, Syddansk Universitetsbibliotek, RARA Musik L 43 131

Charlotte Epple, Fragmentarium, 2026 (Born Digital)

General Information

Title Missal or gradual
Shelfmarks RARA Musik L 43 131
Page/Folio Reference Covers
Material Parchment
Place of Origin Northern Europe
Date of Origin 1401-1500
Script, Hands

Bold Northern Textualis

Original Condition

Number of Columns 1
Ruling Red ruling for full musical notation, four-line staffs

Current Condition

Extent 1 partial bifolium
Dimensions 162 x 421 mm
More about the Current Condition

About a third of a bifolium survives. On the fragment on the front cover, a large B in a rectangular frame was added by a later hand in order to mark the bass voice contained within the host volume, obscuring some text on the fragment.

Book Decoration and Musical Notation

Description

Red rubrics, red & blue initials as well as pen-flourished cadels in red and black. 
  • Musical Notation

    Square notation on red staves.

    • Content

    • Content Item
      • Text Language Latin
      • Title Chants for the 17th Sunday after Whitsun
      • Front cover r
    • Content Item
      • Text Language Latin
      • Title Chants for the 18th Sunday after Whitsun
      • Back cover v

    History

    Origin

    The decorations and appearance suggest the fragment is of Northern European, possibly Danish, origin. 
    Remarks

    The waste parchment was probably available locally on Sealand, Denmark, where the booklet was bound. 

    Host Volume

    Title Collection of 96 motets and madrigals by various composers, in two volumes, with notation
    Date of Origin/Publication 1582-1588
    Place of Origin/Publication Denmark; according to Kongsted copied by Stephanius himself and one other hand, a Peter Eriksen Sten (d. 1602).
    Shelfmark RARA Musik L 43 131
    Remarks

    The binding dates from around 1600. It is a laced-case binding with three visibly laced-in endbands around paste-laminate boards.

    Previously owned by Johannes Stephanius (1561-1625), Danish intellectual, whose ownership inscription on the front guard is dated 7 September 1582. The host volume was later given to Herlufsholm Skole, possibly by Stephanius's son, who studied there. Herlufsholm is 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.

    The L 43 host volumes are described in Kongsted (2016), who states that the two surviving booklets were originally in a set comprising of five or six in total.

    Bibliography

    • Kongsted, Ole. ...‘...Derforuden i et Bundt Endeel Gl. Musicalia, Mutilerede, u-Nyttige Og Af Ingen Importance’. Delaspekter Vedrørende Musikmanuskripterne i Herlufsholm-Samlingen i Syddansk Universitetsbibliotek. I Sofie Lene Bak (Red.)“Kildekunst”–Historiske Og Kulturhistoriske Studier. Festskrift Til John T. Lauridsen. Bd 1 (2016): 89–115.

    • Holck, Jakob Povl. Den Gamle Verdens Magi: Bogsamlingen Fra Herlufsholm På Syddansk Universitetsbibliotek. Syddansk Universitetsbibliotek, 2015.

       https://portal.findresearcher.sdu.dk/da/publications/den-gamle-verdens-magi-bogsamlingen-fra-herlufsholm-p%C3%A5-syddansk-u/

    • Hope, Steffen. Samlet oversigt over rapporter, tabeller og metadata samlet i perioden 01.11.17-28.02.18. Unpublished report for the University Library of Southern Denmark.
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