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Folio with chants for St. Dionysius and St. Gereon

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Evanston, IL, Northwestern University, Music Library, MS 1600 (NW-M1-3)

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

General Information

Title Folio with chants for St. Dionysius and St. Gereon
Shelfmarks Evanston, Northwestern University, Music Library, MS 1600 (NW-M1-3)
Material Parchment
Place of Origin Lower Rhine (probable)
Date of Origin 12th century (c. 1100–1200)
Script, Hands

Carolingian-derived minuscule hand, two-column layout, probably original 12th-century copyist. Later hand, adding Middle Dutch prose in black ink on recto: “Copij va[n] zekeren gijchten gedaen voer schep[...] | van b[...]yten Biljen.” Additional later annotation: Fragmentary Latin phrase “Pro [Christo] … Amoris.”
General Remarks

The folio transmits liturgical material for the offices of St. Dionysius, St. Gereon, and the Theban Legion; a strong cult in Cologne and the Lower Rhine. Written in a two-column format with rubrics, the chants are provided with adiastematic neumes written campo aperto. The fragment shows later re-use, possibly as a pastedown, and retains vernacular inscriptions.

Book Decoration and Musical Notation

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Red ink used for rubrics.
  • Musical Notation

    Adiastematic neumes written campo aperto directly above the text.
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