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Notated breviary

Feasts in August and September

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Odense, Syddansk Universitetsbibliotek, RARA Musik M 4

Charlotte Epple, Fragmentarium, 2026 (Born Digital)

General Information

Title Notated breviary
Shelfmarks RARA Musik M 4
Former Shelfmarks Herlufsholm 535.10
Page/Folio Reference Covers
Material Parchment
Place of Origin Northern Germany?
Date of Origin 1201-1250
Script, Hands

Angular Northern textualis

Original Condition

Number of Columns 2
Ruling Ruled with a pen, two-column layout. Two extra horizontal lines are added in between the regular ruling for the musical notation, resulting in a four-stave layout.

Current Condition

Extent three partial bifolia
Dimensions ca. 275 x 370 mm
More about the Current Condition

Each bifolium was cut to size to fit onto the binding. About three quarters of each remain, so three columns of text are visible. The folds of each bifolium are exposed, revealing horizontally cut sewing holes.

Book Decoration and Musical Notation

Description

Red rubrics, red and blue initials (some pen-flourished).
  • Musical Notation

    Neumes.

    • Content

    • Content Item
      • Text Language Latin
      • Title Beheading of Saint John (August 29)
      • XIII front cover r
    • Content Item
      • Text Language Latin
      • Title Commemorations for Saint Sabina (August 29)
      • XIII front cover r
    • Content Item
      • Text Language Latin
      • Title Commemoration for Saints Felix and Audactus (August 30)
      • XIII front cover r
    • Content Item
      • Text Language Latin
      • Title Birth of the Virgin Mary (September 8)
      • XIII front cover r
    • Content Item
      • Text Language Latin
      • Title Exaltatio Crucis (September 14)
      • X front cover r
    • Content Item
      • Text Language Latin
      • Title Saint Matthew (September 21).
      • X back cover v
    • Content Item
      • Text Language Latin
      • Title In dedicatione ecclesiae
      • XI back cover v

    Host Volume

    Title Polyhymnia Caduceatrix Panegyrica Michaëlis Praetorii
    Date of Origin/Publication 1619
    Place of Origin/Publication Wolfenbüttel
    Shelfmark RARA Musik M 4
    Remarks

    The fragments are still in situ on the host volumes, which belonged to Herlufsholm Skole, a private Latin school located in Næstved, Sealand. It was founded in 1565 on the grounds of a secularised Benedictine monastery, St Peders Kloster. It is unclear when the books entered the library or where they were bound. They contain no provenance inscriptions. A leaf from another liturgical manuscript (F-lxyd) is currently being used as a loose wrapper to protect the three songbooks belonging to Herlufsholm Skole. The old library of Herlufsholm was transferred to the University Library of Southern Denmark in 1968-69.

    The covers are marked with Roman numerals as X, XI and XIII according to the voice the host volume contains. The bindings are simple laced-case covers, with four visible single endbands each. 

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