Northern Textualis

The back cover of this volume is made of a fragment of a missal, F-d1bc.

Most of the text is damaged and illegible. There is also a tear in the middle of the fragment.

Denmark

RARA Musik K 14 122 is the second volume of a series of paper manuscripts containing polyphonic music from around 1600. There were originally at least twelve volumes, of which five survive, distinguished by their RISM identifiers 121-125. K 14 belonged to Herlufsholm Skole, a private Latin school located in Næstved, Sealand founded in 1565 on the grounds of a secularised Benedictine monastery, St Peders Kloster. The old library of Herlufsholm was transferred to the University Library of Southern Denmark in 1968-69.

Ole Kongsted hypothesises that the musical pieces in the host volumes were collected by Danish musicians who travelled to Italy around 1600s. How and when the books entered Herlufsholm is unclear, but the bindings were certainly made locally for the school, as the stamp on volume 124 indicates (Possess. Herlufs H.). They sport blind-tooled half-leather bindings with covers made of several reused parchment manuscripts. The outer fragments remain in situ, but further parchment fragments were originally inside the bindings as spine supports, but they were extracted during a bookbinding intervention in the 20^th century along with the wastepaper that made up the paste-laminate boards. The bindings are all stamped 1604, which however cannot be the year they were bound, since among the extracted material from the original paste-laminate boards we find copious leaves containing writing exercises from Herlufsholm, dated 1624-26.