COLLECTION NAME:
Medieval Document Collection
Record
Identifier:
exwsms116_1r
Manuscript Identifier:
MS 116
Title:
Missal fragment with musical notes, front
Alternative Title:
MS 116, recto
Incipit:
adicient uobis
Origin Date:
s. XIIᵉˣ (between 1175 and 1199)
Origin Location:
France
Description:
The recto side of a twelfth-century French fragment featuring text within musical notation. The text contains the end portions of Sunday XV after Pentecost followed by the beginning of the introit for Sunday XVI after Pentecost along with fragments of additional texts for Sunday XVI. Numerous random inscriptions and scribbles in various late medieval or early modern hands on recto and verso.
Provenance:
Uncertain provenance. Probably produced in France in the last quarter of the twelfth century. Possibly loaned to the WMU library school through Jean Lowrie from the Gethsemani Abbey Library of Kentucky in 1974. Now permanently held by Special Collections, Waldo Library. Numerous random inscriptions and scribbles in various late medieval or early modern hands on recto and verso.
Extent:
1 item
Subject:
Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)--France
Subject:
Missals--Early works to 1800
Subject:
Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)--Michigan--Kalamazoo
Subject:
Catholic Church. Missal
Subject:
Catholic Church--Liturgy--Texts--Early works to 1800
Language:
lat
Dimensions:
200 x 125 mm
Material:
parchment
Binding:
Excised from a manuscript at an unknown date; now housed in a modern, protective archival mat frame.
Decoration Description:
Single-line, red-pen versals passim; 3-line red initial M
Description of Hands:
Written in late protogothic (praegothica) script.
Musical Notation:
Musical notation on a four-line staff with a line for F in red ink.
Additions and Marginalia:
Inscriptions and scribbles in late medieval and early modern hands.
Is Part Of:
Medieval Document Collection
Is Part Of:
Manuscript 116, Western Michigan University Special Collections
Publisher:
Western Michigan University
Date-Issued:
2013
Type:
Text
Format:
image/tiff
Format-Extent:
380,663,218 bytes
Access Rights:
This fragment is in the public domain. Western Michigan University holds the right to the image and reproduction. The images that are provided here are for non-profit, educational use only. For all other uses please contact Special Collections, Western Michigan University.
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Missal fragment with musical notes, front
