Printed Gradual Electronic version according to TEI P5.1 Fragmentarium - Digital Research Laboratory for Medieval Manuscript Fragments

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 Odense Syddansk Universitetsbibliotek RARA Musik L 42 127 Printed Gradual ca. 1490-1500 Lübeck Front cover r Latin Chants for the mass on the first Saturday of Lent The chants appear in the same order in the Graduale Arosiense for the mass on the first Saturday of Lent. Schmid, Toni. Graduale Arosiense Impressum. Edidit: Toni Schmid. 1959. P. 62 Parchment One partial leaf154 x 394 mm

The fragment represents a single leaf, probably cut to size in the margins, then folded around the horizontal-format music book. Therefore, most of the text on the visible page survives, minus the beginning and end of each line. The line that ended up on the spine is heavily damaged from the folding as well as subsequent wear and tear. 

Folio-sized choir book

The fragment contains printed text in red and black made with two typefaces, a large and a small Gothic missal type. According to the Typenrepertorium der Wiegendrucke, the large type is either 3:162G belonging to Bartholomäus Ghotan and Lukas Brandis (Magdeburg, Offizin 1, 1480-1583), or 6:160G of Moritz Brandis (Magdeburg, Offizin 5, 1491-1504). The two are very similar. The printed musical notation, exceptionally rare at the time, matches that of Steffen Arndes in the Graduale Arosiense (Lübeck, ca. 1493, Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke 10983). This fragment overall shares many features with this edition. The printer of the present fragment is therefore almost certainly Arndes, who took over Ghotan's types after the latter disappeared in Russia in the mid-1490s.

 Two types of initials appear on the fragment: Large black woodcut initials (ca. 30mm) in a floral, interlaced design, and simple red lombards. The woodcut initials are of a kind with those used in the Graduale Arosiense, but are not attested in any other prints. Printed square notation, the same used in the Graduale Arosiense. "Altus" added in the 17th century to refer to the content of the part book host volume The edition this fragment was part of was likely commissioned by a Danish diocese in the late 15th century. Further fragments of it have been discovered in the Danish National Archives in Copenhagen as well as the Norwegian National Archives in Oslo.  The fragment must have belonged to a Danish church or religious house, but it is unclear which. Description by: Charlotte Epple, Fragmentarium, 2026 Bruns, Alken, and Dieter Lohmeier. Die Lübecker Buchdrucker im 15. und 16. Jahrhundert: Buchdruck für den Ostseeraum. Boyens, 1994.  Holck, Jakob Povl. Den Gamle Verdens Magi: Bogsamlingen Fra Herlufsholm På Syddansk Universitetsbibliotek. Syddansk Universitetsbibliotek, 2015.   Holck, Jakob Povl. ‘Herlufsholm-Samlingen På Syddansk Universitetsbibliotek Og Forskningspotentialet–Om Forskellige Fund Af Fragmenter’. Studier i Nordisk, nos 2016–2018 (2022): 5–40.  Kongsted, Ole. ...‘...Derforuden i et Bundt Endeel Gl. Musicalia, Mutilerede, u-Nyttige Og Af Ingen Importance’. Delaspekter Vedrørende Musikmanuskripterne i Herlufsholm-Samlingen i Syddansk Universitetsbibliotek. I Sofie Lene Bak (Red.)“Kildekunst”–Historiske Og Kulturhistoriske Studier. Festskrift Til John T. Lauridsen. Bd 1 (2016): 89–115. Schmid, Toni. Graduale Arosiense Impressum. Edidit: Toni Schmid. [A Reduced Facsimile of the Imperfect Copy in the Kungliga Bibliotek, Stockholm, of the Gradual Known as Graduale Svecicum Or Graduale Arosiense, Printed at Lübeck in 1493?]. 1959.