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Graz, Universitätsbibliothek, 29 (olim 38/8 f.) A-Gu 29 Fourteenth-century antiphoner in two volumes (with A-Gu 30) from the Abbey of Sankt Lambrecht (Steiermark, Austria). Mo… 14th century
St-Lambrecht
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Graz, Universitätsbibliothek, 30 (olim 38/9 f.) A-Gu 30 Fourteenth-century antiphoner in two volumes (with A-Gu 29) from the Abbey of Sankt Lambrecht (Steiermark, Austria). Mo… 14th century
St-Lambrecht
Images 5490
Klosterneuburg, Augustiner-Chorherrenstift - Bibl… A-KN CCl 1010 Twelfth-century antiphoner from Klosterneuburg, Austria. Four-line dry-point staves with D-, F-, A- and C-clefs. F- and… 12th century
Klosterneuburg
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Klosterneuburg, Augustiner-Chorherrenstift - Bibl… A-KN CCl 1011 Fourteenth-century antiphoner from Klosterneuburg, Austria. Five-line staves in brown ink with F- and C-lines traced in… 14th century
Klosterneuburg
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Klosterneuburg, Augustiner-Chorherrenstift - Bibl… A-KN CCl 1012 Twelfth-century antiphoner from Klosterneuburg, Austria. Four-line dry-point staff with D-, F-, A- and C-clefs. F- and … 12th century
Klosterneuburg
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Klosterneuburg, Augustiner-Chorherrenstift - Bibl… A-KN CCl 1013 Twelfth-century antiphoner from Klosterneuburg, Austria. Four-line dry-point staff with D-, F-, A- and C-clefs. F- and … 12th century
Klosterneuburg
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Klosterneuburg, Augustiner-Chorherrenstift - Bibl… A-KN CCl 1015 Fourteenth-century antiphoner from Klosterneuburg, Austria. Four-line staff in brown ink with D-, F-, A- and C-clefs. F… 14th century
Klosterneuburg
Images 2690
Klosterneuburg, Augustiner-Chorherrenstift - Bibl… A-KN CCl 1017 Thirteenth- or fourteenth-century antiphoner from Klosterneuburg, Austria. Five-line staff in black ink with F- and C-l… 13th century
Klosterneuburg
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Klosterneuburg, Augustiner-Chorherrenstift - Bibl… A-KN CCl 1018 Fourteenth-century antiphoner from Klosterneuburg, Austria. Four-line staff in brown ink with F- and C-lines traced in … 14th century
Klosterneuburg
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Klosterneuburg, Augustiner-Chorherrenstift - Bibl… A-KN CCl 589 Fourteenth-century antiphoner from Klosterneuburg, Austria. Five-line staves in brown ink with F- and C-lines traced in… 14th century
Klosterneuburg
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Kremsmünster, Benediktiner-Stift Kremsmünster - M… A-KR VI/258 Fragments of Augustinian liturgy written between 1250 and 1280 for the Augustinian cloister of St. Hippolytus in St. Pö… 13th century (2nd half)
St. Pölten
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Linz, Oberösterreichische Landesbibliothek, 290 (… A-LIb 290 Compendium of liturgical material from the twelfth through fourteenth centuries, including a breviary from the monaster… 12th century
Kremsmünster
Images 6214
Sankt Florian, Augustiner-Chorherrenstift - Bibli… A-SF XI 480 Fourteenth-century antiphoner in adiastematic neumes. 273 folios. Secular cursus. 14th century
St-Florian
Images 4029
Vorau, Stiftsbibliothek, 287 (olim XXIX) A-VOR 287 Antiphoner from Salzburg, Austria. From the first half of the 14th century. Staff notation with F, C, G, and A clefs. C… 14th century
Vorau
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Wien, Diözesanarchiv, C-10 A-Wda C-10 Antiphoner (Nocturnale, pars aestivalis). 305 x 215 mm. 265 numbered folios plus the added half leaf f. 131a (numbere… 15th century
Kirnberg
Images 2321
Wien, Diözesanarchiv, C-11 A-Wda C-11 Antiphoner (Nocturnale, pars hiemalis). 305 x 220 mm. 214 numbered folios plus a half folio added between ff. 68 and … 15th century
Kirnberg
Images 1938
Wien, Diözesanarchiv, D-4 A-Wda D-4 Antiphoner (Vesperale, totius anni). 320 x 215 mm. 326 numbered folios plus two added half leaves, ff. 248a and 323a … 15th century
Kirnberg
Images 2980
Wien, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek - Handsc… 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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Wien, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek - Musiks… A-Wn 1890 Brevarium from the twelfth or thirteenth century of uncertain provenance in southern Germany or Austria. The breviary i… 12th century
Southern Germany / Austria
Images 5575
Sydney, University of Sydney, Fisher Library, Rar… AUS-Sfl Add. Ms. 413 Antiphoner. Possibly prepared for a Franciscan house in Spain. Square notation on red five-line staves. Secular cursus.… 16th century (2nd half)
Spain
Images 582
Dendermonde, Sint-Pieters-en Paulusabdij, ms. 9 B-DEa 9 Twelfth-century parchment manuscript sent from Hildegard of Bingen’s Rupertsberg monastery to the Cistercian abbey of V… 12th century (2nd half)
Rupertsberg
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Gent, Universiteitsbibliotheek, Hs BKT.006 ("Tsgr… 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).… 16th century (1500-1525)
Tongerloo
Images 3170
Tongeren, Onze-Lieve-Vrouw-Kerk (Our Lady's Churc… B-TO olv 63 Antiphoner copied for Our Lady’s Church in Tongeren (Tongres), Belgium in the late 14th century. Nearly identical to B… 14th century (1375-1400)
Tongeren
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Tongeren, Onze-Lieve-Vrouw-Kerk (Our Lady's Churc… B-TO olv 64 Antiphoner copied for Our Lady’s Church in Tongeren (Tongres), Belgium in the late 14th century. Nearly identical to B… 14th century (1375-1400)
Tongeren
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Halifax (Canada), St. Mary’s University - Patrick… CDN-Hsmu M2149.L4 Cistercian antiphoner from the Abbey of Salzinnes, Namur, in the Diocese of Liège. Manuscript produced on vellum and co… 16th century (1550-1575)
Salzinnes
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London (Ontario, Canada), Private collections, D-… CDN-LonONpc D-01oko (fragment) Single parchment leaf from a gradual. Black square notation on four-line red staves with F- and C-clefs. 5 staves per f… 16th century
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London (Canada), University of Western Ontario - … CDN-Lu M2150 Sixteenth-century “mutilated” antiphoner, possibly from the Burgos monastery, Spain. Square notation on five-line black… 16th century
Burgos (?)
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Montréal, McGill University - Rare Books and Spec… 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 4
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Montréal, McGill University - Rare Books and Spec… CDN-Mlr MS Medieval 0020 (fragment) Missal, one leaf, 15th century. No musical notation. 15th century
Images 7
Montréal, McGill University - Rare Books and Spec… CDN-Mlr MS Medieval 0021 (fragment) Gradual. Adiastematic notation (St. Gall notation). 12th century (2nd half)
Images 28
Montréal, McGill University - Rare Books and Spec… 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
Montréal, McGill University - Rare Books and Spec… 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… 15th century
Germany (south)
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Montréal, McGill University - Rare Books and Spec… 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; wri… 14th century
Italy
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Montréal, McGill University - Rare Books and Spec… 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. 531… 14th century (2nd half)
Italy
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Montréal, McGill University - Rare Books and Spec… 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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Montréal, McGill University - Rare Books and Spec… CDN-Mlr MS Medieval 0073 Miscellaneous choirbook from Northern Italy, made of 10 independent codicological units produced in different periods f… 14th century
Dominican
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Montréal, McGill University - Rare Books and Spec… 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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Montréal, McGill University - Rare Books and Spec… 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 … 1
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Montréal, McGill University - Rare Books and Spec… 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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Montréal, McGill University - Rare Books and Spec… CDN-Mlr MS Medieval 0086 (fragment) 17th century
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Montréal, McGill University - Rare Books and Spec… CDN-Mlr MS Medieval 0087 (fragment) Antiphonal, one leaf, Spanish, 15th century. Square notation in black ink on four-line staff, with partial rhythmic ind… 15th century
Spain
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Montréal, McGill University - Rare Books and Spec… 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… 15th century
Italy
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Montréal, McGill University - Rare Books and Spec… 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. Compo… 17th century
Images 2
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Montréal, McGill University - Rare Books and Spec… 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. Squar… 17th century
Spain
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Montréal, McGill University - Rare Books and Spec… CDN-Mlr MS Medieval 0169 (fragment) Missal, one leaf, Italian, 15th century. No musical notation. 15th century
Italy
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Montréal, McGill University - Rare Books and Spec… 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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Montréal, McGill University - Rare Books and Spec… CDN-Mlr MS Medieval 0171 (fragment) Missal, fragment from one leaf (top portion), late 15th century, contains prayers for the Mass (collects, secrets, post… 15th century (2nd half)
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Montréal, McGill University - Rare Books and Spec… 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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Montréal, McGill University - Rare Books and Spec… CDN-Mlr MS Medieval 0176 (fragment) Gradual, one leaf, Flemish? Adiastematic notation. 12
Montréal, McGill University - Rare Books and Spec… 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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Montréal, McGill University - Rare Books and Spec… CDN-Mlr MS Medieval 0186 (fragment) Missal, one leaf, 14th century. No musical notation. 14th century
Italy
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Montréal, McGill University - Rare Books and Spec… CDN-Mlr MS Medieval 0204 (fragment) Missal, one leaf, 15th century. No musical notation. 15th century
4
Montréal, McGill University - Rare Books and Spec… 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 s… 16th century
Spain
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Montréal, McGill University - Rare Books and Spec… CDN-Mlr MS Medieval 0206 (fragment) Missal, two leaves, Italian?, 15th century. No musical notation. 15th century
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Montréal, McGill University - Rare Books and Spec… CDN-Mlr MS Medieval 0207 (fragment) Psalter, one leaf, English? 15th century. No musical notation. 15th century
1
Montréal, McGill University - Rare Books and Spec… CDN-Mlr MS Medieval 0208 (fragment) Missal, fragment of bifolium, 14th century. German notation on four-line staff. 14th century
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Montréal, McGill University - Rare Books and Spec… 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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Montréal, McGill University - Rare Books and Spec… 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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Montréal, McGill University - Rare Books and Spec… CDN-Mlr MS Medieval 0211 (fragment) Missal, one leaf, Italian, mid-14th century. No musical notation. 14th century
Italy
8
Montréal, McGill University - Rare Books and Spec… CDN-Mlr MS Medieval 0212 (fragment) Missal, one leaf, Flemish or German, mid-14th century. No musical notation. 14th century
2
Montréal, McGill University - Rare Books and Spec… CDN-Mlr MS Medieval 0215 (fragment) Hymnary (section), one leaf, Italian, early 16th century. Mensural notation. 16th century
Italy
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Montréal, McGill University - Rare Books and Spec… 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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Montréal, McGill University - Rare Books and Spec… CDN-Mlr MS Medieval 0217 (fragment) Missal, one leaf, mid-15th century. No musical notation. 15th century
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Montréal, McGill University - Rare Books and Spec… CDN-Mlr MS Medieval 0218 (fragment) Antiphonal, one leaf, mid-16th century. No musical notation. 16th century
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Montréal, McGill University - Rare Books and Spec… 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 7
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Montréal, McGill University - Rare Books and Spec… CDN-Mlr MS Medieval 0220 (fragment) Antiphonal, two leaves, Italian, early 16th century. No musical notation. 16th century
Italy
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Montréal, McGill University - Rare Books and Spec… CDN-Mlr MS Medieval 0221 (fragment) Missal, one leaf, Italian, mid-16th century. No musical notation. 16th century
Italy
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Montréal, McGill University - Rare Books and Spec… CDN-Mlr MS Medieval 0222 (fragment) Missal, one leaf, damaged, 2nd half of the 14th century. No musical notation. 14th century (2nd half)
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Montréal, McGill University - Rare Books and Spec… CDN-Mlr MS Medieval 0231 (fragment) Gradual, two leaves, 15th century. Square notation in black ink on red five-line staff. 15th century
Italy
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Montréal, McGill University - Rare Books and Spec… CDN-Mlr MS Medieval 0234 Responsoriale including incipits of Magnificat and Benedictus antiphons (often notated in the low margins), invitatorie… 16th century (1575-1600)
Germany
Images 2036
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North Vancouver (British Columbia, Canada), Priva… CDN-NVanBCpc D-02csu (fragment) Single parchment leaf in private ownership. Square notation in black-brown ink on red 5-line staves, with F- and C-clef… Images 4
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St. Catharines (Ontario, Canada), Brock Universit… CDN-STCbul RG 394 (fragment) A single parchment leaf from a liturgical manuscript. Square notation in black ink on five-line red staves with F clefs… 16th century
Images 3
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Toronto, University of Toronto - Thomas Fisher Ra… CDN-Ttfl MSS 09700 Antiphoner covering Lent, Easter, and Eastertide up to the sixth week after Easter. 15th century (1st half)
Firenze
Images 737
Waterloo, University of Waterloo – DRAGEN Lab-St … 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… 16th century
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Waterloo, University of Waterloo – DRAGEN Lab-St … 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-l… 14th century
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Waterloo, University of Waterloo – DRAGEN Lab-St … 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… 13th century
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Waterloo (Ontario, Canada), Private collections, … CDN-WatONpc D-0uhiz (fragment) Single parchment leaf from an antiphoner. Square notation in black ink on red four-line staves with F- and C-clefs; 7 l… Images 13
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Einsiedeln, Stiftsbibliothek, Codex 121 CH-E 121 Late tenth-century manuscript (about 960-970) from the abbey of Einsiedeln, known for its section with sequences of Not… 10th century
Einsiedeln
Images 2075
Einsiedeln, Kloster Einsiedeln - Musikbibliothek,… CH-E 611 14th-century antiphoner from the monastery of Einsiedeln, Switzerland. Staff notation. Monastic cursus. 281 numbered fo… 14th century
Einsiedeln
Images 5261
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Fribourg, Bibliothèque des Cordeliers, Ms. 2 CH-Fco Ms. 2 Late thirteenth-century or early fourteenth-century Franciscan antiphoner. Place of origin unknown. Square notation. Ca… Franciscan Images 4062
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Porrentruy, Bibliothèque cantonale jurassienne, 18 CH-P 18 Twelfth-century Premonstratensian gradual of unknown origin, associated with Bellelay Abbey as early as 1160. Messine n… 12th century
Bellelay Abbey
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Sankt Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, 388 CH-SGs 388 Twelfth-century antiphoner with later additions up to the fourteenth-century from St. Gall (modern Switzerland). 498 pa… 12th century
St. Gallen
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Sankt Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, 390 CH-SGs 390 Late tenth-century manuscript from the abbey of St. Gall, also known as the Winter volume of the Hartker Antiphoner. 19… 10th century (975-1000)
St. Gallen
Images 2192
Sankt Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, 391 CH-SGs 391 Late tenth-century manuscript from the abbey of St. Gall, also known as the Summer volume of the Hartker Antiphoner. 26… 10th century
St. Gallen
Images 3011
Praha (Prague), Strahovská knihovna (Library of t… CZ-Pst DE I 7 "Breviarium Strigoniense." Thirteenth-century breviary (including unnotated prayers, lessons, and other material betwee… 13th century
Esztergom
Images 3657
Praha (Prague), Národní knihovna České republiky … CZ-Pu VI.E.4c The manuscript have been used by benedictine nuns of St George's Convent at Prague Castle. The Bohemian benedictine pro… 12th century (2nd half)
Prague, St. George Monastery
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Praha (Prague), Národní knihovna České republiky … CZ-Pu XIV B 13 Antiphoner. First half of the fourteenth century. From the convent of Benedictine nuns at the monastery of St. George, … 14th century
Prague, St. George Monastery
Images 2000
Aachen (Aix-la-Chapelle), Domarchiv, G 20 D-AAm G 20 Antiphoner from the second half of the thirteenth century, likely created for use at the collegiate church of St. Mary … 13th century (2nd half)
Aachen
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Berlin, Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin Preußischer Ku… D-B Mus. 40047 Eleventh-century antiphoner. Secular cursus. Late Carolingian minuscule script. Non-diastematic neumatic notation. Ligh… 11th century
Quedlinburg
Images 4412
Bamberg, Staatsbibliothek, Msc.Lit.25 (olim Ed.IV… D-BAs Msc.Lit.25 Late-thirteenth-century antiphoner from Bamberg Cathedral (Bamberg, Germany). 24.5 x 17 cm. German notation on a four-l… 13th century
Bamberg
Images 2224
Fulda, Hessische Landesbibliothek, Aa 55 D-FUl Aa 55 Fourteenth- or fifteenth-century summer season antiphoner from the collegiate church of Rasdorf near Fulda, Hessen, Ger… 14th century
Rasdorf
Images 3011
Karlsruhe, Badische Landesbibliothek - Musikabtei… D-KA Aug. LX Late twelfth-century antiphoner of which the musical notation was almost completely rewritten in the 13th/14th century.… 12th century
Zwiefalten
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Köln, Erzbischöfliche Diözesan- und Dombibliothek… D-KNd 1161 Winter volume of a twelfth-century Cistercian antiphoner. 129 folios. 325 x 230 mm. Gothic neumes on a four-line staff … 12th century
Köln
Images 2183
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Köln (Cologne), Erzbischöfliche Diözesan- und Dom… D-KNd 215 Twelfth-century Franconian breviary from a Benedictine monastery in the diocese of Würzburg. 279 folios. 295 x 205 mm. … 12th century
Würzburg
Images 5107
Mainz, Bischöfliches Dom- und Diözesanmuseum, A D-MZb A Antiphoner, written in the 1430s for use by the Carmelites of Mainz. Square Roman notation on a four-line staff. Cathed… 15th century (1425-1450)
Mainz
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Mainz, Bischöfliches Dom- und Diözesanmuseum, B D-MZb B Antiphoner, written in the 1430s for use by the Carmelites of Mainz. Square Roman notation on a four-line staff. Cathed… 15th century (1425-1450)
Mainz
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Mainz, Bischöfliches Dom- und Diözesanmuseum, C D-MZb C Antiphoner, written in the 1430s for use by the Carmelites of Mainz. Square Roman notation on a four-line staff. Cathed… 15th century (1425-1450)
Mainz
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Mainz, Bischöfliches Dom- und Diözesanmuseum, D D-MZb D Antiphoner, written in the 1430s for use by the Carmelites of Mainz. Square Roman notation on a four-line staff. Cathed… 15th century (1425-1450)
Mainz
1716
Mainz, Bischöfliches Dom- und Diözesanmuseum, E D-MZb E Antiphoner, written in the 1430s for use by the Carmelites of Mainz. Square Roman notation on a four-line staff. Cathed… 15th century (1425-1450)
Mainz
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München, Franziskanerkloster St. Anna - Bibliothe… D-Ma 12o Cmm 1 Franciscan breviary from central Italy. Possibly early thirteenth century, after 1235. 170 x 110 mm. Central-Italian st… 13th century (1225-1250)
Italy
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