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Liturgical chant folio with Office of St. Agnes

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Evanston, IL, Northwestern University, Music Library, MS 1600 (NW-S2-2)

Paul Feller-Simmons, DACT, 2025 (Born Digital)

General Information

Title Liturgical chant folio with Office of St. Agnes
Shelfmarks Evanston, Northwestern University, Music Library, MS 1600 (NW-S2-2)
Former Shelfmarks Small Box 2
Material Parchment
Place of Origin Likely Northwestern or Central Europe
Script, Hands

Gothic textualis (littera textualis), executed in two columns per page. The script is regular and professional, with rubricated headings. Musical text hand is distinct but integrated with chant notation.
General Remarks

This fragment is a single folio, trimmed along the shoulder side, causing partial loss of text. It preserves chants for the Office of St. Agnes, Virgin Martyr (Induit me Dominus, Quod speravi iam teneo, Pulchra facie sed pulchrior fide, among others), including responsories, verses, and antiphons.

Book Decoration and Musical Notation

Description

Simple red initials mark chant incipits, with rubricated headings. Decoration is limited to red ink initial.
  • Musical Notation

    Hufnagel neumes in black ink on four-line staves (tetragrams) with mixed black and red lines. Both C and F clefs are employed; the F line is highlighted in red.
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