Evanston, Northwestern University, Music Library, MS 1600 (NW-S2-2)

Cantus Siglum

US-Eu MS 1600 (NW-S2-2)

Holding Institution

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

Manuscript/Print

Manuscript

Summary

Single folio from a late medieval chant manuscript on parchment, containing chants for the Office of St. Agnes, Virgin Martyr.

Liturgical Occasions

Agnetis

Description

Single folio from manuscript on parchment, containing chants and readings for the Office of St. Agnes. Written in Gothic script, in two-column layout, with red rubrics and initials. Notation is in black Hufnagel neumes on tetragrams, utilizing both early C and F clefs (the F line is marked in red). The shoulder-side trimming results in some text loss. Seemingly reused as a book cover, perhaps for accounts: several later annotations contain calculations.

The noted breviary is monastic cursus (readings ten through twelve are labelled--the ninth is "omelia lectionis eiusdem"--with one visible antiphon for "cantica."). The selection of responsories and antiphons does not suggest a particular order or place of origin. The script appears early- to mid-thirteenth century, with many uncial d's but a few round Rs, ct and st ligatures, and inconsistent use of ampersands and tironian "et". The readings regularly contain a mark for pauses or breaths, shaped like a small "7". Musical notation is small, narrow early Hufnagel-style neumes, on a staff seemingly done in drypoint and gone over in a faint, largely faded greyish ink for most lines and a still-visible red for the F line.

Full/Partial Inventory

Full Inventory

Complete Source/Fragment

Fragment

Fragmentarium ID

F-uoj0