Folio with chants for Christmas and Epiphany
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Evanston, IL, Northwestern University, Music Library, MS 1600 (NW-SF-2)
Paul Feller-Simmons, DACT, 2025 (Born Digital)
Description URL
https://cantusdatabase.org/source/1000378
https://cantusdatabase.org/source/1000378
General Information
Title
Folio with chants for Christmas and Epiphany
Shelfmarks
Evanston, Northwestern University, Music Library, MS 1600 (NW-SF-2)
Page/Folio Reference
f. 1r–v
Material
Parchment
Place of Origin
Possibly France
Date of Origin
13th century
Script, Hands
Gothic textualis.
General Remarks
This folio preserves liturgical chants for the season of Christmas. The recto contains an Alleluia combining Latin and Greek elements (Hemera hagias mnemes epiphanimon / Dies sanctificatus illuxit nobis) and a second version of Dies sanctificatus. The verso preserves the Offertory Tui sunt caeli, the Communion Viderunt omnes, both for the Mass of Christmas, and the Introit Etenim sederunt principes, for the Feast of Stephen. The folio is trimmed on all sides and the verso is heavily rubbed.
Book Decoration and Musical Notation
Description
Alternating red-and-blue penwork initials mark major textual and musical divisions. Simple black-and-red initials used for chant incipits.
Black square notation written on red four-line staves (tetragrams).