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Folia with chants for Epiphany, Nativity, and St. Stephen – Fragment

Parchment · Two folia · 1050 – 1300 CE

F-gmyn

Evanston, IL, Northwestern University, Music Library, MS 1600 (NW-S2-4), ff. 1r–2v
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Folia with chants for Epiphany, Nativity, and St. Stephen (Fragment), Evanston, IL, Northwestern University, Music Library, MS 1600 (NW-S2-4), ff. 1r–2v (https://fragmentarium.ms/overview/F-gmyn)
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Century
11th century
12th century
Text Language
Latin
Script Type
Praegothica
Liturgica
Gradual
Troper
Sequentiary
Summary

This fragment consists of two parchment folia from a gradual (or composite Mass book) containing chants for Epiphany, Nativity, and the feast of St. Stephen. Written in a late Caroline minuscule hand and datable to the 11th–12th century, the leaves are trimmed from their original bifolia but retain text and music in relatively good condition. Decoration is confined to simple red highlighting of initials and sparse rubrication. The adiastematic neumes were possibly applied in two distinct phases.

Summary Author
Paul Feller-Simmons
External Resources
↗ Inventory on Cantus Database
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