St. Catharines (Ontario, Canada), Brock University Library - Archives and Special Collections, RG 394 (fragment)

Siglum

CDN-STCbul RG 394 (fragment)

Summary

A single parchment leaf from a liturgical manuscript. Square notation in black ink on five-line red staves with F clefs. 5 staves per folio side with humanistic, rounded script in the intervening spaces. 264 mm tall x 185 mm.

Liturgical Occasions

Contains notated readings from Matthew Chapter 26.

Description

The parchment of this single leaf is fairly thick and stiff; the verso is the hair side. The text, which is in a rounded, humanistic script, along with the five-line staves (thought by some to be more common in Spanish regions?) suggest a dating of late-15th or 16th century.

The first letter "P," which is red with decorative pen-flourishes in black-brown ink, is the height of two music staves. There is discoloration on the edges of the leaf and it appears as though one of the rubricated markings on the fourth line has been erased.

There is some transference of other writing on the recto side. It appears to be a more Gothic script with a narrow aspect and can be seen in the left margin and into the left sides of the staves in a perpendicular orientation to the principal writing-space.

The library record indicates that this fragmented leaf was acquired in August 1967 from the Adelphi Book Shop in Victoria, B.C.

Images on Fragmentarium:
https://fragmentarium.ms/overview/F-7lzz

Images via Brock University Library:
https://dr.library.brocku.ca/bitstream/handle/10464/3994/15th%20Century%20Music%20Sheet%20-%202.jpg?sequence=4

Selected Bibliography

• "RG 394 - Leaf from a Liturgical Music Manuscript for Good Friday." In Brock University Digital Repository - Archives and Special Collections - Archival Resources - Medieval Documents Collection. Link.
• "RG 394 - Leaf from a Liturgical Music Manuscript for Good Friday." In Brock University Digital Repository - Archives and Special Collections - Archival Finding Aid. Link

• "Leaf from a liturgical music manuscript for Good Friday, [ca.1475-1525]." In Brock University Library online catalogue. Link.

Notes on the Inventory

The inventory for CDN-STCbul RG 394 (fragment) was created by Debra Lacoste (Dalhousie University) and proofread by Anna de Bakker (Dalhousie University).

Full Texts Entered by

Debra Lacoste

Melodies Entered by

Debra Lacoste

Complete/Partial Inventory

Complete Inventory

Full Source/Fragment

Fragment or Fragmented

Fragment ID

F-7lzz

DACT ID

D-07lzz