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Antiphoner

Chants for the feasts of St Paul (30 June) and Visitatio Mariae (2 July)

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Odense, Syddansk Universitetsbibliotek, RARA Musik L 44 133

Charlotte Epple, Fragmentarium, 2026 (Born Digital)

General Information

Title Antiphoner
Shelfmarks RARA Musik L 44 133
Page/Folio Reference Covers
Material Parchment
Date of Origin 1401-1500
Script, Hands

Angular, very sharp Northern Textualis. 

Original Condition

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

Current Condition

Extent 1 partial bifolium
Dimensions 162 x 418 mm
More about the Current Condition

Upper third or so of a bifolium.

Book Decoration and Musical Notation

Description

Red rubrics. Cadel initials in red/black, some with pen-drawn faces. 
  • Musical Notation

    Square notation.

    • Content

    • Content Item
      • Text Language Latin
      • Title Chants for Visitatio Mariae (2 July)
      • Front cover r
    • Content Item
      • Text Language Latin
      • Title Chants for St Paul's feast (30 June)
      • Back cover v

    History

    Origin

    The script's verticality is markedly different from other fragments in similar bindings (compare for example F-mdfq or F-f0aa); Dr William Duba suggests it may be from Frisia or the Rhineland.

    Host Volume

    Title Collection of motets, madrigals and masses by various composers
    Date of Origin/Publication ca. 1600.
    Shelfmark RARA Musik L 44 133
    Remarks

    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.

    The volume is the only surviving one of a set of at least twelve such musical manuscript, which contained a variety of secular and religious polyphonic music. There are about a dozen such early modern paper manuscripts in the Herlufsholm Collection, most also bound in waste parchment. L 44, however, is the only one that has a long stitch binding (the others all have laced-case or half leather bindings), suggesting it potentially comes from a different context than the others. The binding was clearly taken apart at some point, and the original boards (probably paste laminate) replaced with modern cardboard.

    RISM dates L 44 to 1580, though Kongsted (2016) argues for a later dating based on the composers represented in the volume.

    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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