Evanston, Northwestern University, Music Library, MS 1600 (NW-S2-1)

Cantus Siglum

US-Eu MS 1600 (NW-S2-1)

Holding Institution

Evanston, Northwestern University, Music Library (US-Eu)

Manuscript/Print

Manuscript

Summary

Single folio from a late medieval chant manuscript on paper, written in Gothic script with blue and red initials (on verso only). Music is in black square notation on red tetragrams. The recto primarily contains notated music, while the verso is mostly text with some incipits.

Liturgical Occasions

Trinity Sunday, Corpus Christi

Description

This fragment preserves chants for Trinity Sunday and Corpus Christi. The fragment shows use of Gothic script, rubrication, and penwork initials in blue and red, though only on the verso.
The script of both text and music suggests a localization in the Low Countries or Northern France, but this is difficult to confirm; a later annotation apparently reading "marie de ilbune" suggests a French-speaking region, but does not preclude another interpretation. Likely dates from the fifteenth century or later.
The leaf seems to be from a book of processional items. It preserves a chant for Trinity, immediately followed by a versicle, prayer, and another chant marked "in reditu" (suggesting use in a procession.) The chant to be sung on return is Marian, rather than explicitly Trinitarian in theme.
The verso preserves part of the Pentecost hymn "Veni creator spiritus", with the rubric "in festo eucaristiae"; its appearance after the Trinity items suggests a use for Corpus Christi. The rubric also indicates that the hymn occurs at the beginning of a procession.

Full/Partial Inventory

Full Inventory

Complete Source/Fragment

Fragment

Fragmentarium ID

F-tgrg

DACT ID

D:0tgrg