Folio with chants for the Divine Office
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https://cantusdatabase.org/source/1000372
General Information
Transitional Caroline-Gothic minuscule, written in black ink.
This single folio, once part of a larger Italian antiphonal, was later reused as a pastedown, leading to rubbing and fading (especially on verso). The leaf preserves a sequence of Office chants for Thursday Matins and Lauds (recto) and Thursday/Friday Vespers with Saturday Matins (verso). The chants include responsories, antiphons, and incipits for psalms and versicles.
Book Decoration and Musical Notation
Simple red initials mark the incipits of chants, often one to two lines in height. Rubrication is limited to initials and the occasional highlighting of liturgical rubrics
Diastematic neumes on a single red line, with the pitch “f” consistently marked. Occasional auxiliary yellow lines indicate “c.” Notation written in dark brown/black ink, now faded in places.