Gradual?Electronic version according to TEI P5.1Fragmentarium - Digital Research Laboratory for Medieval Manuscript Fragments
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OdenseSyddansk UniversitetsbibliotekRARA M 197Gradual?1101-1200England?Front cover rLatinChants for All Saints Day or the common of several martyrsThe chants are mostly alleluias and verses, as well as the gradual Timete dominum (g00478), suggesting this fragment is from a gradual or notated missal. The full musical notation makes the former more likely. As stated in Hope's report, according to the Cantus Database, the chants are mostly associated with the common of several martyrs and All Saints Day, though some of them are also used for various individual martyrs as well. ParchmentTwo partial leaves320 x 154 mm
The fragment on the front cover is placed on the binding so that the text is upside down in relation to the host volume's text.
Red ruling for full musical notation, four-line staves
Pre-gothic hand. Straight-backed d, f and tall s on the baseline, letters rarely touching.
Small, simple initials in black with some red.Mostly square notation. One alleluia and verse on the back cover fragment are written in neumes.Michael Gullick has suggested that this fragment is of English origin based on palaeographic criteria (as quoted in Holck, 2022).The primary provenance of the fragment is unclear. 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 tranche of books acquired by Peder Pedersen Hie, who was rector of Herlufsholm between 1610-13. It bears a spine label with the letters BVH for Bibliotheca Vetus Hienniae, as well as an inscription on the title page reading Hic liber in usum Scholæ Herlovianæ acquisitus est Rectore Petro Petrejo Hiennio, most likely added later by a librarian.
Before that, the book belonged to Danish humanist intellectual Erasmus Laetus (Rasmus Glad, 1526-82). The book is stamped with his name and the year 1580. Description by: Charlotte Epple, Fragmentarium, 2026Holck, Jakob Povl. ‘Herlufsholm-Samlingen På Syddansk Universitetsbibliotek Og Forskningspotentialet–Om Forskellige Fund Af Fragmenter’. Studier i Nordisk, nos 2016–2018 (2022): 5–40.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.