Liturgical chant fragments
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Evanston, IL, Northwestern University, Music Library, MSS 1600 (NW-L3-3)
Paul Feller-Simmons, DACT, 2025 (Born Digital)
Description URL
https://cantusdatabase.org/source/1000261
https://cantusdatabase.org/source/1000261
General Information
Title
Gradual folio fragments with Communion for the Common of Confessors and Marian chants
Shelfmarks
Evanston, Northwestern University, Music Library, MSS 1600 (NW-L3-3)
Page/Folio Reference
1r–v (=f.54r–v); 2r (=f.32r, text only); 3r–v (unfoliated, incomplete)
Material
Parchment
Date of Origin
16th–early 17th century (ca. 1501–1650)
Persons
At least two different scribal hands indicated by divergent foliation styles.
Script, Hands
Humanistic script (post-Gothic, consistent with late chant manuscripts).
General Remarks
This source comprises several non-contiguous folia from a late liturgical manuscript, probably a gradual or antiphoner. Of the surviving material, only four folia preserve music. The contents include the Communion Justorum animae in manu Dei (for the Common of Martyrs/Confessors) and the responsory O gloriosa domina for the Assumption of the Virgin.
Book Decoration and Musical Notation
Description
Modest rubrication marking liturgical rubrics and chant headings (e.g., Communio).
Black square notation on red five-line staves (pentagrams).