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

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 Odense Syddansk Universitetsbibliotek RARA M 28 Notated missal 1401-1500 Front cover r Latin Mass for Saint John the Baptist (23 June) Back cover v Latin Mass for the apostles Peter and Paul (29 June) Parchment Two partial leaves333 x 150 mm

The fragments have incurred some worm and water damage, especially the one on the back cover.

 Red ruling for full musical notation

Bold Northern textualis with fine hairlines. Uses a curious ct-ligature-shaped et.

 Red and blue initials as well as spiral design cadels in red and black. Red rubrics and line fillers. Square notation on four-line staff. The square notation and general appearance of the script, as well as the cadels, are common in Scandinavia, but were also in use elsewhere.  The host volume 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. This book is part of a donation made to the school by count Otto Thott (1703-1785), who became warden of the school in 1763 until his death in 1785. Well-known for his book collecting, he gave about 6000 volumes to Herlufsholm’s library in several shipments beginning in 1777. It is unclear where the book was bound, and thus where the waste parchment was procured, but it is clear that this happened long before Thott acquired it. The style of the binding is clearly of the 16th century. A note in German on the back pastedown, dated 1563, indicates that the book was already in its present binding at that time. Description by: Charlotte Epple, Fragmentarium, 2026 Holck, Jakob Povl. Den Gamle Verdens Magi: Bogsamlingen Fra Herlufsholm På Syddansk Universitetsbibliotek. Syddansk Universitetsbibliotek, 2015.  Hope, Steffen. Samlet oversigt over rapporter, tabeller og metadata samlet i perioden 01.11.17-28.02.18. Unpublished report for the University Library of Southern Denmark.