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Notated breviary

Exaltatio Crucis (September 14) and Saint Matthew (September 21)

F-yx44

Odense, Syddansk Universitetsbibliotek, RARA MUSIK M 4 [X]

Charlotte Epple, Fragmentarium, 2026 (Born Digital)

General Information

Title Notated breviary
Shelfmarks RARA Musik M 4 [X]
Former Shelfmarks Herlufsholm 535.10
Page/Folio Reference Covers
Material Parchment
Place of Origin Northern Germany?
Date of Origin 1201-1250
Script, Hands

Angular Northern textualis

Original Condition

Number of Columns 2
Ruling Ruled with a pen, two-column layout. Two extra horizontal lines are added in between the regular ruling for the musical notation, resulting in a four-stave layout.

Current Condition

Extent 1 partial bifolium
Dimensions ca. 275 x 370 mm
More about the Current Condition

The bifolium was cut to size to fit onto the binding. About three quarters remain, so three columns of text are visible. The folds of the bifolium are exposed, revealing horizontally cut sewing holes.

Book Decoration and Musical Notation

Description

Red rubrics, red and blue initials (some pen-flourished).
  • Musical Notation

    Neumes

    • Host Volume

    Title Polyhymnia Caduceatrix Panegyrica Michaëlis Praetorii
    Date of Origin/Publication 1619
    Place of Origin/Publication Wolfenbüttel
    Shelfmark RARA Musik M 4
    Remarks

    This fragment is one of three bifolia from the same breviary reused for three parts of the Polyhymnia Panegyrica (see virtual reconstruction F-qfnv). The fragments are still in situ on the host volumes, which belonged to Herlufsholm Skole, a private Latin school located in Næstved, Sealand. It was founded in 1565 on the grounds of a secularised Benedictine monastery, St Peders Kloster. It is unclear when the books entered the library or where they were bound. They contain no provenance inscriptions. A leaf from another liturgical manuscript (F-lxyd) is currently being used as a loose wrapper to protect the three songbooks belonging to Herlufsholm Skole. The old library of Herlufsholm was transferred to the University Library of Southern Denmark in 1968-69.

    The covers are marked with Roman numerals as X, XI and XIII according to the voice the host volume contains. The bindings are simple laced-case covers, with four visible single endbands each. 

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