Overview
Facsimile Print    Online Since: 07/04/2026

Gradual – Fragment

Parchment · 1 partial leaf · 1401 – 1500 CE · Northern Europe · 43 x 28 mm

F-pila

Odense, Syddansk Universitetsbibliotek, RARA Musik L 43 132, Front cover
Image Rights
How to quote
This document is part of the following projects:
Persons
Herlufsholms Bibliotek (Previous Owner)
Places
Provenance: Denmark
Summary

Small scrap of parchment containing an initial and some square notation. It is pasted on a binding made out of plain parchment around a musical manuscript from ca. 1600, likely the result of some kind of historical book binding intervention.

The host volume is part of a set of musical manuscripts, of which only one other volume (L 43 131) remains extant. L 43 131 is also bound in a notated liturgical fragment, F-f0aa, most likely from the same codex as the present scrap. Both once belonged to Danish scholar Johannes Stephanius (1561-1625), whose ownership inscription on the front pastedown is dated 1582.

The host L 43 host volumes are described in 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. 

Summary Author
Charlotte Epple (University of Southern Denmark, Odense)
External Resources