North Vancouver, Private collections, D:02csu (fragment)

Cantus Siglum

Cantus D:02csu (fragment)

Holding Institution

North Vancouver, Private collections

Manuscript/Printed

Manuscript

Summary

Single parchment leaf in private ownership. Square notation in black-brown ink on red 5-line staves, with F- and C-clefs. Use of custodes at the ends of the staves.

Liturgical Occasions

Contains a sequence for the BVM.

Description

Single parchment leaf in a frame with both sides visible. Purchased at a book shop in Nurnberg in 1972; scant provenance information. Currently in private ownership in British Columbia, Canada.

Recto side is labeled CxCv = fol. 195r.

Each side has 7 lines of text in rotunda script with a narrow aspect, and square notation on 5-line red staves. The "G" at the start of each verse alternates red and blue, with the first being more decorated. Fol. 195r has additional decoration of swirls and flowers in blue and gold in the left and top margin.

The text is a sequence on the Joys of the Virgin, set to a variant of "Veni Sancte Spiritus." Two distinctive variants in the sequence text are:
"Gaude quia oblatio...filio" and "Gaude quia paraclitus...collegio."

Selected Bibliography

• Fragmentarium link: https://fragmentarium.ms/view/page/F-2csu

Notes on the Inventory

The inventory for Cantus D:02csu (fragment) was entered by Anna de Bakker (Dalhousie University) and proofread by Debra Lacoste (Dalhousie University). Formerly CDN-NVanBCpc D-02csu (fragment).

Full Texts Entered by

Anna de Bakker

Melodies Entered by

Anna de Bakker

Full/Partial Inventory

Full Inventory

Complete Source/Fragment

Fragment

Fragment ID

F-2csu

DACT ID

D:02csu