Antiphonarium Missae

(Graduale)

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Solothurn, Zentralbibliothek Solothurn, ZBS S I 853 2 42

Remarks by the Editor

description is based on:

Schönherr, Alfons: Schrift und Buch. Solothurn: Verlag der Zentralbibliothek, 1959 (= Veröffentlichungen der Zentralbibliothek Solothurn 3), p. 56, no. 42

General Information

Title Antiphonarium Missae
Shelfmarks ZBS S I 853 2 42
Material Parchment
Script, Hands

praegothica minuscule, brown ink (hand 1)

Original Condition

Page Height 280 – 300 mm
Page Width 205 – 225 mm
Height of Written Area 180 – 210 mm
Width of Written Area 145 – 147 mm
Number of Columns 1
Number of Lines 18 – 22
Line Height at least 12 mm
Ruling full blind-point ruling
More about the 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

Extent 1 bifolium, cropped
Dimensions 250 x 417 mm

Book Decoration and Musical Notation

Description

red initials, rubricated

  • Musical Notation

    "Die adiastematische Neumenschrift zeigt alemannisch-oberrheinische Übergangsneumen mit st. gallischen Stilelementen.", Schönherr 1959, p. 56.

  • History

    Provenance

    Stiftskapitel Schönenwerd

    Remarks

    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

    Title Conciones sacrae
    Date of Origin/Publication not after 1678
    Shelfmark ZBS S 205
    Remarks

    Restored by G. Weissenbach in 1952.

    Bibliography

    • Schönherr, Alfons: Schrift und Buch. Solothurn: Verlag der Zentralbibliothek, 1959 (= Veröffentlichungen der Zentralbibliothek Solothurn 3), p. 56, no. 42