Antiphonarium Missae
(Graduale)
F-rueq
description is based on:
General Information
praegothica minuscule, brown ink (hand 1)
Original Condition
Musical notations in staffless neumes (hand 2). The scribe did not always find enough room for musical notation, in which case the neumes are inserted in between or next to the text, sometimes even over two lines.
Current Condition
Book Decoration and Musical Notation
red initials, rubricated
"Die adiastematische Neumenschrift zeigt alemannisch-oberrheinische Übergangsneumen mit st. gallischen Stilelementen.", Schönherr 1959, p. 56.
History
Stiftskapitel Schönenwerd
The original manuscript was cut in pieces in 1546, the fragment served as cover for an account book of Stiftskapitel Schönenwerd. It was reused as a manuscript's cover in 1678. See Schönherr 1959, p. 56.
Host Volume
Restored by G. Weissenbach in 1952.
Bibliography
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Schönherr, Alfons: Schrift und Buch. Solothurn: Verlag der Zentralbibliothek, 1959 (= Veröffentlichungen der Zentralbibliothek Solothurn 3), p. 56, no. 42