Leaf of a hymnary

F-ofjh

Montreal, McGill Library Rare Books and Special Collections, MS Medieval 0092

Remarks by the Editor

Description draws from a description made for McGill by Dionysios Hetzopoulos ca. 1990 

General Information

Title Leaf of a hymnary
Shelfmarks MS Medieval 0092
Material Parchment
Place of Origin Spain
Script, Hands

Southern Textualis 

General Remarks

There are two unrelated leaves stored at this shelfmark; see also https://fragmentarium.ms/overview/F-s7b0

Original Condition

Page Height at least 710 mm
Page Width at least 500 mm
Number of Columns 1

Current Condition

Dimensions 710 x 500 cm

Book Decoration and Musical Notation

Description

From McGill Catalog: "recto: the initials O (Ostensa) and R (Rex) in red ink ; unnumbered folio verso: the initials Q (Quesumus) and G (Gloria) in red ink. The chant text begins with a large blue D (Deus) on square red ink traced ground containing botanical forms in white, the square bound by a narrow margin containing diagonal shapes."

  • Musical Notation

    Square notation on a five-line red staff; very thin, almost invisible, stems and lines of division.

    Partial hymns for Apostles and Martyrs; each seems to have had one verse with music, followed by subsequent verses with no notation.