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Noted missal

Mass for the feast of St Lawrence (10 August); Mass for the feast of St Gorgonius (9 September)

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Antwerpen, Museum Vleeshuis, N2/26

Roos in't Velt, Vlaamse Erfgoedbibliotheken, 2023 (Born Digital)

General Information

Title Noted missal
Former Shelfmarks Antwerpen, Museum Vleeshuis, N2/26
Material Parchment
Date of Origin first half 11th century
Script, Hands

Carolingian minuscule, in two different sizes (chants written in a smaller hand than the main text). Fol. [2] has some notes written in a northern gothica textualis currens that were added later.
General Remarks

The inclusion of a mass for St Gorgonius and German neumatic notation indicates that the manuscript possibly originated in the Low Countries (the diocese of Utrecht).

Original Condition

Page Height 290 mm
Page Width 215 – 220 mm
Height of Written Area 260 mm
Width of Written Area 145 mm
Number of Columns 1
Width of Columns 145 mm
Number of Lines 28
Line Height 5 mm
Ruling Full lead-point ruling

Current Condition

Extent 2 leaves
Dimensions 290 x 215 mm
More about the Current Condition

Much of the text has faded, making it difficult to read. Both leaves contains holes left by bookworms, presumably damage that came about when they were used as pastedowns.

Book Decoration and Musical Notation

Description

Plain initials in blue ink, written in a column separate from the main text. Rubrics in blue ink.
  • Musical Notation

    Neumes in campo aperto.

    • Content

    • Content Item
      • Text Language Latin
      • Title Mass for the feast of St Laurence (10 August)
      • Content Description
        • Introit 'Da quaesumus Domine Deus... perpetuo laetemur aspectu'.
        • Reading of 2 Corinthians 9:6-10.
        • Antiphon 'Levita Laurentius bonum opus' (CantusID 202924).
          • Antiphon verse 'Dispersit dedit pauperibus' (CantusID 003609a).
          • Antiphon verse 'Potens in terra erit semen' (verse for the Common of a Martyr, CantusID 006831zf).
        • Reading of Matthew 16:24-28.
        • Offertory chant 'Oratio mea munda est' (CantusID g00330).
          • Offertory verse 'Probavit me dominus' (CantusID g00330a).
        • Secreta and communio.
      • fol. [1]r
    • Content Item
      • Text Language Latin
      • Title Mass for the feast of St Gorgonius (9 September)
      • Content Description
        • Responsory 'Domine praevenisti eum' (Responsory for the Common of a Martyr, CantusID 006505).
          • Responsory verse 'Vitam petiit ad te et tribuisti' (CantusID 006505a).
        • Offertory chant 'Gloria et honore coronasti eum' (CantusID g01260).
        • Offertory chant 'Posuisti domine in capite ejus' (CantusID g01298).
          • Offertory verse 'Desiderium animae ejus tribuisti' (CantusID g01298a)
          • Offertory verse 'Magna est gloria ejus' (CantusID g01298b).
        • Secreta, Communio and Postcommunio.
      • fol. [2]r
      • Remarks

        The text on fol. [2]r is difficult to read.

    History

    Provenance

    Fragment was acquired by Museum Vleeshuis in 1894.

    Host Volume

    Remarks

    Both leaves were clearly used as pastedowns for an otherwise unidentified book. The contours of the turn-ins are clearly visible and wormholes indicate that the leaves were pasted onto wooden boards.
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