it's nice when the #chant contents of a fragment reveal something about the likely place of origin: like this jumbled-up set of pages from Trier, which (when in order) suggest they might be Franciscan #fragmentfriday #franciscanfriday #thatisntwhatthefisforthough fragmentarium.ms/view/page/F-...
sometimes finding the chant on a chant fragment feels like where's waldo (it's a gradual chant, on the lower left)
Leaves from Aristotle's De interpretatione (translated into Latin by Boethius) and from the latter's treatise De topicis differentiis recycled as pastedowns (@jlugiessen.bsky.social, UB, 692) resolver.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/HSP0006560D0...
it's been fun discovering the #chant contents of some leaves in Otto Ege's Fifty Original Leaves portfolios. like this one at Kent State with not only nice notation (on the hymn for Michael) but also an unusual hymn for Cosmas&Damian #fragmentfriday
this little song in honour of Edmund Rich survives in two sources at Worcester Cathedral--an addition to an antiphoner, and a binding fragment. did they particularly like Edmund at Worcester? just an oddity of survival? not sure! #fragmentfriday
"Rather than dancing, as proposed in some earlier descriptions, the figure appears to be recoiling from something unpleasant or threatening." what a mood, little margin-person fragmentarium.ms/view/page/F-...
not-exactly-a-fragment: #chant written into a prayerbook ca. 1750 near present-day Ogdensburg, NY #fragmentfriday
Just entered this fragment on @archive.org. Took some work to ID text and chant due to dyed parchment but thanks to multispectral (re)imaging™ and Cantus DB (thank you @dact-fragments.bsky.social!), it's done. As @lisafdavis.bsky.social says: MSI FTW! But now my head hurts. #fragmentology
on the one hand it's weird that fragmentation makes "pick your favourite leaf of this disassembled book" a meaningful question but also this is a good leaf though #fragmentfriday
really love that this little bit of #chant (the Introit for Sexagesima) from a Danish manuscript is binding an Italian version of an English madrigal. #fragmentfriday
cute lil english-looking #chant for Ascension hiding in a Dutch book cover in Alkmaar. #fragmentfriday
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easter week chant in Beneventan notation, complete with merpig(?)
odd two-tone flowering branch in this here #chant fragment. curious when/where it was added... #fragmentfriday
the layout of this #chant page makes it look like the scribe was just made to copy out "nunc sancte nobis" indefinitely like some medieval Bart Simpson #fragmentfriday
today is (among other things) the feast of saint Cuthbert, which seems like a good day to share a fragment of #chant for the fourth week of Lent (this week!) likely from Durham priory (Cuthbert's resting place) #fragmentfriday
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Carin Ruff@carinr.bsky.social · 2y agoTangential to Julian of Toledo, whose day this is: Julian wrote about + may have been complicit in poisoning King Wamba. I will never cease to be amused at the names of Visigothic kings. Anyway, the Antiphoner of Wamba, Archivo de la Catedral de León ms 8, has absolutely nothing to do with Wamba...
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today's #chant for #fragmentfriday comes from the library at Northwestern University--a notated breviary with chants and readings for St. Agnes. question: what's with "Omel. lec. e."? "lec.ix" would be expected here.
17th-century German jurisprudence all dressed up in 15th century chant #fragmentfriday fragmentarium.ms/view/page/F-...
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Last Friday's Saint Dorothea: passage from her life in the Legenda aurea on the recycled leaves of a breviary (@unihalle.bsky.social, AB 47 13/a, 12) nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:g...
love a good musical diagram!
Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies@sims-mss.bsky.social · 8mo agoToday's manuscript is a 15th c. copy of Boethius's 6th c. treatise on the theory of ancient Greek music, in which the text reflects the 10th-century tradition and the numerous diagrams related to ratio and pitch demonstrate later developments. (UPenn LJS 47) #medievalsky 🔗: https://bit.ly/4qqXUte
