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Displaying 1-100 of 207 sources| Siglum | Summary | Date/Origin | Image Link | Chants/Melodies |
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| A-Gu 29 | Fourteenth-century antiphoner in two volumes (with A-Gu 30) from the Abbey of Sankt Lambrecht (Steiermark, Austria). Monastic cursus. 382 a… |
14th century St-Lambrecht |
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| A-Gu 30 | Fourteenth-century antiphoner in two volumes (with A-Gu 29) from the Abbey of Sankt Lambrecht (Steiermark, Austria). Monastic cursus. 382 a… |
14th century St-Lambrecht |
Images | 5490 |
| A-KN 1010 | Twelfth-century antiphoner from Klosterneuburg, Austria. Four-line dry-point staves with D-, F-, A- and C-clefs. F- and C-lines in red and … |
12th century Klosterneuburg |
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2384
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| A-KN 1011 | Fourteenth-century antiphoner from Klosterneuburg, Austria. Five-line staves in brown ink with F- and C-lines traced in red and yellow. D-,… |
14th century Klosterneuburg |
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| A-KN 1012 | Twelfth-century antiphoner from Klosterneuburg, Austria. Four-line dry-point staff with D-, F-, A- and C-clefs. F- and C- lines in red and … |
12th century Klosterneuburg |
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2176
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| A-KN 1013 | Twelfth-century antiphoner from Klosterneuburg, Austria. Four-line dry-point staff with D-, F-, A- and C-clefs. F- and C- lines in red and … |
12th century Klosterneuburg |
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2890
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| A-KN 1015 | Fourteenth-century antiphoner from Klosterneuburg, Austria. Four-line staff in brown ink with D-, F-, A- and C-clefs. F- and C-lines in red… |
14th century Klosterneuburg |
Images | 2690 |
| A-KN 1017 | Thirteenth- or fourteenth-century antiphoner from Klosterneuburg, Austria. Five-line staff in black ink with F- and C-lines traced in red a… |
13th century Klosterneuburg |
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| A-KN 1018 | Fourteenth-century antiphoner from Klosterneuburg, Austria. Four-line staff in brown ink with F- and C-lines traced in red and yellow. D-, … |
14th century Klosterneuburg |
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2823
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| A-KN 589 | Fourteenth-century antiphoner from Klosterneuburg, Austria. Five-line staves in brown ink with F- and C-lines traced in red and yellow. D-,… |
14th century Klosterneuburg |
Images | 2867 |
| A-KR VI/258 | Fragments of Augustinian liturgy written between 1250 and 1280 for the Augustinian cloister of St. Hippolytus in St. Pölten, Austria, now h… |
13th century (2nd half) St. Pölten |
1822 | |
| A-LIs 290 | Compendium of liturgical material from the twelfth through fourteenth centuries, including a breviary from the monastery of Kremsmünster, A… |
12th century Kremsmünster |
Images | 6214 |
| A-SF XI 480 | Fourteenth-century antiphoner in adiastematic neumes. 273 folios. Secular cursus. |
14th century St-Florian |
Images | 4029 |
| A-VOR 287 | Antiphoner from Salzburg, Austria. From the first half of the 14th century. Staff notation with F, C, G, and A clefs. Cathedral cursus. 339… |
14th century Vorau |
Images | 5919 |
| A-Wda C-10 | Antiphoner (Nocturnale, pars aestivalis). 305 x 215 mm. 265 numbered folios plus the added half leaf f. 131a (numbered as 131w, x in the … |
15th century Kirnberg |
Images | 2321 |
| A-Wda C-11 | Antiphoner (Nocturnale, pars hiemalis). 305 x 220 mm. 214 numbered folios plus a half folio added between ff. 68 and 69, numbered as 68w … |
15th century Kirnberg |
Images | 1938 |
| A-Wda D-4 | Antiphoner (Vesperale, totius anni). 320 x 215 mm. 326 numbered folios plus two added half leaves, ff. 248a and 323a (numbered in the ind… |
15th century Kirnberg |
Images | 2980 |
| A-Wn 1799** | Thirteenth-century Cistercian antiphoner from Rein. Staff notation. Monastic cursus. 250 folios. 29 cm x 40.5 cm. |
13th century Rein |
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4628
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| A-Wn 1890 | Brevarium from the twelfth or thirteenth century of uncertain provenance in southern Germany or Austria. The breviary is possibly from Augb… |
12th century Southern Germany / Austria |
Images | 5575 |
| AUS-Sfl Add. Ms. 413 | Antiphoner. Possibly prepared for a Franciscan house in Spain. Square notation on red five-line staves. Secular cursus. 56 x 40 x 12cm. 221… |
16th century (2nd half) Spain |
Images | 582 |
| B-DEa 9 | Twelfth-century parchment manuscript sent from Hildegard of Bingen’s Rupertsberg monastery to the Cistercian abbey of Villers in Brabant, B… |
12th century (2nd half) Rupertsberg |
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| B-Gu Hs BKT.006 | Sixteenth-century antiphoner from the Premonstratensian abbey of Tongerlo (Belgium). 575 x 400 mm (620 x 425 x 150 mm). 338 numbered folios… |
16th century (1500-1525) Tongerloo |
Images | 3170 |
| B-TO olv 63 | Antiphoner copied for Our Lady’s Church in Tongeren (Tongres), Belgium in the late 14th century. Nearly identical to B-TO olv 64. Both vol… |
14th century (1375-1400) Tongeren |
3158 | |
| B-TO olv 64 | Antiphoner copied for Our Lady’s Church in Tongeren (Tongres), Belgium in the late 14th century. Nearly identical to B-TO olv 63. Both vol… |
14th century (1375-1400) Tongeren |
3127 | |
| CDN-Hsmu M2149.L4 | Cistercian antiphoner from the Abbey of Salzinnes, Namur, in the Diocese of Liège. Manuscript produced on vellum and completed in 1554 and … |
16th century (1550-1575) Salzinnes |
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2932
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| CDN-Lu M2150 | Sixteenth-century “mutilated” antiphoner, possibly from the Burgos monastery, Spain. Square notation on five-line black staves. Secular cur… |
16th century Burgos (?) |
292 | |
| CDN-Mlr MS Medieval 0007 (fragment) | Bifolio from medieval antiphoner or choirbook. German, XV century. Square notation in black ink on red five-line staff. | Images |
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| CDN-Mlr MS Medieval 0020 (fragment) | Missal, one leaf, 15th century. No musical notation. |
15th century |
Images | 7 |
| CDN-Mlr MS Medieval 0021 (fragment) | Gradual. Adiastematic notation (St. Gall notation). |
12th century (2nd half) |
Images | 28 |
| CDN-Mlr MS Medieval 0024 (fragment) | Gradual, one leaf, French?, early 14th century. No musical notation. 31.0 x 23.0 cm with a writing space 23.0 x 15.5 cm |
14th century France |
Images | 25 |
| CDN-Mlr MS Medieval 0025 (fragment) | Gradual, two leaves, German, 15th century. Hufnagelschrift on five-line staff. 31.0 x 22.5 cm. Writing surface: 24.5 x 17.0 cm. |
15th century Germany (south) |
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| CDN-Mlr MS Medieval 0064 (fragment) | Gradual, one leaf, Italian, late 14th century. Square notation in black ink on red four-line staff. 53.0 x 31.5 cm; writing area 29.6 x 24.… |
14th century Italy |
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| CDN-Mlr MS Medieval 0065 (fragment) | One leaf from a gradual, late 14th-century Italian, on vellum. Square notation in black ink on red four-line staff. 531x317 mm. |
14th century (2nd half) Italy |
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| CDN-Mlr MS Medieval 0072 (fragment) | Antiphonal, one leaf, Italian, mid-15th century. Square notation in black ink on red four-line staff. |
15th century Italy |
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| CDN-Mlr MS Medieval 0073 | Miscellaneous choirbook from Northern Italy, made of 10 independent codicological units produced in different periods for a total of 143 un… |
14th century Dominican |
442 | |
| CDN-Mlr MS Medieval 0078 (fragment) | Antiphonal. Square notation on five-line red staff that suggests Spanish (or Mexican) provenance. |
16th century |
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| CDN-Mlr MS Medieval 0080 (fragment) | Single leaf (in a frame), verso side visible. Square notation on four-line red staff with rubric and decorated initial filling what would h… |
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| CDN-Mlr MS Medieval 0081 (fragment) | Gradual, six leaves, Italian, 2nd half of 15th century. Square notation in black ink on red four-line staff. |
15th century (2nd half) Italy |
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| CDN-Mlr MS Medieval 0086 (fragment) |
17th century |
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| CDN-Mlr MS Medieval 0087 (fragment) | Antiphonal, one leaf, Spanish, 15th century. Square notation in black ink on four-line staff, with partial rhythmic indications (isolated d… |
15th century Spain |
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| CDN-Mlr MS Medieval 0088 (fragment) | Gradual, one leaf, with initial S, with Olivetan Benedicts, Italian, late 15th century. Square notation in black ink on red four-line staff… |
15th century Italy |
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| CDN-Mlr MS Medieval 0089 (fragment) | Antiphonal, one leaf, Spanish or Mexican, late 17th century. Square notation in black ink on red five-line staff. Composition with four sin… |
17th century |
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| CDN-Mlr MS Medieval 0092 (fragment) | Two leaves from an antiphonal and hymnary. The recto and verso of the first leaf do not appear to be in sequence. Square notation in black … |
17th century Spain |
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| CDN-Mlr MS Medieval 0169 (fragment) | Missal, one leaf, Italian, 15th century. No musical notation. |
15th century Italy |
8 | |
| CDN-Mlr MS Medieval 0170 (fragment) | Antiphonal, one leaf. Square notation in black ink on red four-line staff. | Italy |
2
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| CDN-Mlr MS Medieval 0171 (fragment) | Missal, fragment from one leaf (top portion), late 15th century, contains prayers for the Mass (collects, secrets, postcommunions) |
15th century (2nd half) |
Images | 16 |
| CDN-Mlr MS Medieval 0172 (fragment) | Antiphonal, two leaves, late 15th century. Square notation in black ink on red five-line staff. |
15th century |
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| CDN-Mlr MS Medieval 0176 (fragment) | Gradual, one leaf, Flemish? Adiastematic notation. | 12 | ||
| CDN-Mlr MS Medieval 0184 (fragment) | Responsorial (bifolio). Partially mensural notation on red five-line staff (isolated diamond shape notes). |
16th century |
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| CDN-Mlr MS Medieval 0186 (fragment) | Missal, one leaf, 14th century. No musical notation. |
14th century Italy |
5 | |
| CDN-Mlr MS Medieval 0204 (fragment) | Missal, one leaf, 15th century. No musical notation. |
15th century |
4 | |
| CDN-Mlr MS Medieval 0205 (fragment) | Antiphonal, one leaf, Spanish, 16th century. Antiphons are notated in square notation in black ink on a red five-line staff. |
16th century Spain |
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| CDN-Mlr MS Medieval 0206 (fragment) | Missal, two leaves, Italian?, 15th century. No musical notation. |
15th century |
10 | |
| CDN-Mlr MS Medieval 0207 (fragment) | Psalter, one leaf, English? 15th century. No musical notation. |
15th century |
1 | |
| CDN-Mlr MS Medieval 0208 (fragment) | Missal, fragment of bifolium, 14th century. German notation on four-line staff. |
14th century |
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| CDN-Mlr MS Medieval 0209 (fragment) | Antiphonal, one leaf, Italian? late 15th century. Square notation in black ink on red four-line staff. |
15th century |
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| CDN-Mlr MS Medieval 0210 (fragment) | Antiphonal, one leaf, Italian? early 16th century. Square notation in brown ink on red four-line staff. |
16th century |
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| CDN-Mlr MS Medieval 0211 (fragment) | Missal, one leaf, Italian, mid-14th century. No musical notation. |
14th century Italy |
8 | |
| CDN-Mlr MS Medieval 0212 (fragment) | Missal, one leaf, Flemish or German, mid-14th century. No musical notation. |
14th century |
2 | |
| CDN-Mlr MS Medieval 0215 (fragment) | Hymnary (section), one leaf, Italian, early 16th century. Mensural notation. |
16th century Italy |
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| CDN-Mlr MS Medieval 0216 (fragment) | Antiphonal, one bifolium from the Psalterium section, Italian, 15th century. No musical notation. |
15th century |
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| CDN-Mlr MS Medieval 0217 (fragment) | Missal, one leaf, mid-15th century. No musical notation. |
15th century |
3 | |
| CDN-Mlr MS Medieval 0218 (fragment) | Antiphonal, one leaf, mid-16th century. No musical notation. |
16th century |
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| CDN-Mlr MS Medieval 0219 (fragment) | Antiphonal, one leaf, Italian, late 15th-early 16th century. Square notation in black ink on red four-line staff. | Italy |
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| CDN-Mlr MS Medieval 0220 (fragment) | Antiphonal, two leaves, Italian, early 16th century. No musical notation. |
16th century Italy |
22 | |
| CDN-Mlr MS Medieval 0221 (fragment) | Missal, one leaf, Italian, mid-16th century. No musical notation. |
16th century Italy |
2 | |
| CDN-Mlr MS Medieval 0222 (fragment) | Missal, one leaf, damaged, 2nd half of the 14th century. No musical notation. |
14th century (2nd half) |
19 | |
| CDN-Mlr MS Medieval 0231 (fragment) | Gradual, two leaves, 15th century. Square notation in black ink on red five-line staff. |
15th century Italy |
Images |
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| CDN-Mlr MS Medieval 0234 | Responsoriale including incipits of Magnificat and Benedictus antiphons (often notated in the low margins), invitatories, and responds foll… |
16th century (1575-1600) Germany |
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2036
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| CDN-WAdl MS Book A (fragment) | One leaf of a gradual. Gothic script in brown-black ink copied in two columns with square notation on 4-line red staves in the intervening … |
16th century |
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| CDN-WAdl MS Medieval 01 (fragment) | Fragmented strip from an antiphoner. Gothic script in brown-black ink copied in two columns with square notation on 4-line red staves in th… |
14th century |
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| CDN-WAdl MS Medieval 02 (fragment) | Heavily-damaged fragmented strip from an antiphoner. Gothic script in brown-black ink copied in two columns with square notation on 4-line … |
13th century |
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| CH-E 121 | Late tenth-century manuscript (about 960-970) from the abbey of Einsiedeln, known for its section with sequences of Notker from St. Gall. 6… |
10th century Einsiedeln |
Images | 2075 |
| CH-E 611 | 14th-century antiphoner from the monastery of Einsiedeln, Switzerland. Staff notation. Monastic cursus. 281 numbered folios (folio number 1… |
14th century Einsiedeln |
Images |
5261
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| CH-Fco Ms. 2 | Late thirteenth-century or early fourteenth-century Franciscan antiphoner. Place of origin unknown. Square notation. Cathedral Cursus. 245 … | Franciscan | Images |
4062
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| CH-P 18 | Twelfth-century Premonstratensian gradual of unknown origin, associated with Bellelay Abbey as early as 1160. Messine notation on a four-li… |
12th century Bellelay Abbey |
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2093
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| CH-SGs 388 | Twelfth-century antiphoner with later additions up to the fourteenth-century from St. Gall (modern Switzerland). 498 parchment pages, 25-25… |
12th century St. Gallen |
Images | 5721 |
| CH-SGs 390 | Late tenth-century manuscript from the abbey of St. Gall, also known as the Winter volume of the Hartker Antiphoner. 194 pages. 220 x 165 c… |
10th century (975-1000) St. Gallen |
Images | 2192 |
| CH-SGs 391 | Late tenth-century manuscript from the abbey of St. Gall, also known as the Summer volume of the Hartker Antiphoner. 264 pages. 220 x 165 c… |
10th century St. Gallen |
Images | 3011 |
| CZ-Pst DE I 7 | "Breviarium Strigoniense." Thirteenth-century breviary (including unnotated prayers, lessons, and other material between the chants). 328 f… |
13th century Esztergom |
Images | 3657 |
| CZ-Pu VI.E.4c | The manuscript have been used by benedictine nuns of St George's Convent at Prague Castle. The Bohemian benedictine provenance is undoubted… |
12th century (2nd half) Prague, St. George Monastery |
3423 | |
| CZ-Pu XIV B 13 | Antiphoner. First half of the fourteenth century. From the convent of Benedictine nuns at the monastery of St. George, Prague Castle. Gothi… |
14th century Prague, St. George Monastery |
Images | 2000 |
| D-AAm G 20 | Antiphoner from the second half of the thirteenth century, likely created for use at the collegiate church of St. Mary in Aachen. 406 folio… |
13th century (2nd half) Aachen |
6240 | |
| D-B Mus. 40047 | Eleventh-century antiphoner. Secular cursus. Late Carolingian minuscule script. Non-diastematic neumatic notation. Light to medium brown in… |
11th century Quedlinburg |
Images | 4412 |
| D-BAs Msc.Lit.25 | Late-thirteenth-century antiphoner from Bamberg Cathedral (Bamberg, Germany). 24.5 x 17 cm. German notation on a four-line staff; F and C c… |
13th century Bamberg |
Images | 2224 |
| D-FUl Aa 55 | Fourteenth- or fifteenth-century summer season antiphoner from the collegiate church of Rasdorf near Fulda, Hessen, Germany. Gothic notatio… |
14th century Rasdorf |
Images | 3011 |
| D-KA Aug. LX | Late twelfth-century antiphoner of which the musical notation was almost completely rewritten in the 13th/14th century. Originated in Zwief… |
12th century Zwiefalten |
Images |
5798
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| D-KNd 1161 | Winter volume of a twelfth-century Cistercian antiphoner. 129 folios. 325 x 230 mm. Gothic neumes on a four-line staff with a red F-line an… |
12th century Köln |
Images |
2183
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| D-KNd 215 | Twelfth-century Franconian breviary from a Benedictine monastery in the diocese of Würzburg. 279 folios. 295 x 205 mm. Adiastematic neumes … |
12th century Würzburg |
Images | 5107 |
| D-MZb A | Antiphoner, written in the 1430s for use by the Carmelites of Mainz. Square Roman notation on a four-line staff. Cathedral cursus. 278 foli… |
15th century (1425-1450) Mainz |
1266 | |
| D-MZb B | Antiphoner, written in the 1430s for use by the Carmelites of Mainz. Square Roman notation on a four-line staff. Cathedral cursus. 302 foli… |
15th century (1425-1450) Mainz |
845 | |
| D-MZb C | Antiphoner, written in the 1430s for use by the Carmelites of Mainz. Square Roman notation on a four-line staff. Cathedral cursus. 334 foli… |
15th century (1425-1450) Mainz |
1353 | |
| D-MZb D | Antiphoner, written in the 1430s for use by the Carmelites of Mainz. Square Roman notation on a four-line staff. Cathedral cursus. 281 foli… |
15th century (1425-1450) Mainz |
1716 | |
| D-MZb E | Antiphoner, written in the 1430s for use by the Carmelites of Mainz. Square Roman notation on a four-line staff. Cathedral cursus. 249 foli… |
15th century (1425-1450) Mainz |
910 | |
| D-Ma 12o Cmm 1 | Franciscan breviary from central Italy. Possibly early thirteenth century, after 1235. 170 x 110 mm. Central-Italian staff notation. Cathed… |
13th century (1225-1250) Italy |
4429 | |
| D-Mbs Clm 4303 | Antiphoners from the Benedictine monastery of SS. Ulrich and Afra in Augsburg. All with four-line staves and square notation. Monastic curs… | Augsburg | Images |
1725
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| D-Mbs Clm 4304 | Antiphoners from the Benedictine monastery of SS. Ulrich and Afra in Augsburg. All with four-line staves and square notation. Monastic curs… |
16th century (1500-1525) Augsburg |
Images |
697
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| D-Mbs Clm 4305 | Antiphoners from the Benedictine monastery of SS. Ulrich and Afra in Augsburg. All with four-line staves and square notation. Monastic curs… |
15th century (1450-1475) Augsburg |
Images |
1431
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| D-Mbs Clm 4306 | Antiphoners from the Benedictine monastery of SS. Ulrich and Afra in Augsburg. All with four-line staves and square notation. Monastic curs… |
16th century (1500-1525) Augsburg |
Images |
2050
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| D-Sl HB.I.55 | Antiphoner from the abbey of Weingarten. Twelfth or thirteenth century. 23.5 x 17.5 cm. German neumes. Monastic cursus. 194 folios, four la… |
12th century Weingarten |
4229 |