Evanston, Northwestern University, Music Library, MS 1600 (NW-SF-4)

Cantus Siglum

US-Eu MS 1600 (NW-SF-4)

Holding Institution

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

Manuscript/Print

Manuscript

Summary

Two vellum folia with Mass ordinary and prefaces.

Description

Two vellum folia (fragments). Written in a Northern Gothic hand. Text and music presented with rubrication and simple red initials. Music notated in Hufnagel neumes on red pentagrams, employing both “c” and “f” clefs (never juxtaposed). Fol. 1r contains text only, apparently for a priest's investiture prayers, with rubrics including “ad albam” and “ad manipulu[m],” as well as a marginal French note in a later hand: “Extrait d’un m.s. du [...]eme siecle [B?] il faut verifier [...] dans le … on notait deja ainsi.” ("Excerpt from a manuscript of the [...] century … it must be verified in the … [that] they were already notating in this way". Likely a century was indicated, and erased, in both sentences.) Portions of the leaves are trimmed at the margins, cutting into the musical notation, and additional damage from tearing has further obscured text and melody. The fragment preserves material from the Mass Ordinary (including the Lord’s Prayer) and Proper (including Prefaces for specific feasts and seasons). The proper prefaces omit the opening formulae, providing notation for only the variable portions; three of these are offset with a large red cross inside an O or omega, though one begins without an initial or a rubric.

Full/Partial Inventory

Full Inventory

Complete Source/Fragment

Fragment

Fragmentarium ID

F-hzdx

DACT ID

D:0hzdx