Missal folia with chants for Sundays after Pentecost

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Evanston, IL, Northwestern University, Music Library, MS 1600 (NW-M1-1)

General Information

Title Missal folia with chants for Sundays after Pentecost
Shelfmarks Evanston, Northwestern University, Music Library, MS 1600 (NW-M1-1)
Page/Folio Reference ff. 1r, 2r–v, 142 (plus additional non-contiguous folia)
Material Parchment
Place of Origin Flanders
Date of Origin ca. 1450 (15th century)
Script, Hands

Gothic textura; clear, formal liturgical book hand with rubricated headings; secondary cursive or semi-formal hand for later additions

General Remarks

This group of folia is fragmentary and non-contiguous, likely dispersed from a missal. The leaves were sold through Philip J. Pirages Fine Books and accompanied by a dealer’s note identifying them as “leaves from a folio missal in Latin” (Flanders, c.1450). Roughly half of the leaves contain musical notation. The contents include introits, graduals, alleluias, and communions for Sundays after Pentecost (e.g., Dominica XXI–XXII). Original foliation is inconsistent; extant numbering includes fol. 142.

Book Decoration and Musical Notation

Description

Alternating red and blue decorated initials marking major textual divisions. Occasional smaller black initials for lesser divisions. Rubrication in abbreviated Latin.

  • Musical Notation

    Black square notation on red four-line staves (tetragrams).