"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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Tangential 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!
Today'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
in this week after Epiphany please enjoy this antiphoner fragment, particularly the zzzzzz #fragmentfriday
looking through some chants in this leaf of the Beauvais missal @casewestern.bsky.social and it seems so excited about SabBATO (saturday) #fragmentfriday fragmentarium.ms/view/page/F-...
happy #fragmentfriday feast of st willibrord from this noted breviary from Frauenfeld! fragmentarium.ms/view/page/F-...