in this week after Epiphany please enjoy this antiphoner fragment, particularly the zzzzzz #fragmentfriday

it's the mOOOOOOOOOOOOst wonderful time...of O antiphons! #fragmentfriday

A is Advent, and as you see here AAAAd te levavi opens the year #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-...

This is the feast–in all the churches!–of Willibrord, Apostle to the Frisians, d. 739. 🕯️ First up: the Calendar of Willibrord, BNF lat 10837, an early-8c manuscript written on the Continent, probably at Echternach, mainly in Insular majuscule. #medievalsky 🧵 portail.biblissima.fr/en/ark:/4309...

liturgical books bound in liturgical books but TEENY TINY

Spilled my coffee travel mug in my backpack this morning - can you imagine the horror - so let’s just say some time with these wonderful #earlymodern miniature books was very much needed! 1) Gregorian Calendar (1585) #rarebooks #bookhistory 💙📚📜 /1

spooky skeleton chant fragment #fragmentfriday fragmentarium.ms/view/page/F-...

around 1592 somebody used an antiphoner to be a cover for their college textbook. it really must have been a pretty big antiphoner, so one wonders how many other texts it was used for... #fragmentfriday fragmentarium.ms/view/page/F-...

happy feast day of st gereon, martyr at Cologne, from this fragment in Antwerp #fragmentfriday fragmentarium.ms/view/page/F-...

a happy feast of ewald and ewald this #fragmentfriday from this saint calendar, possibly from the diocese of Trier, now in Paris. bonus: weird little scorpion, fun marbled pillars fragmentarium.ms/view/page/F-...

this fragment from Trier has some fun and colourful initials for pentecost #fragmentfriday fragmentarium.ms/view/page/F-...

happy belated feast of Hildegard (Sept.17)! celebrate with this lovely fragment from the binding of the Riesencodex (the greenish circle is from the bosses on the cover) #fragmentfriday fragmentarium.ms/overview/F-y...

normally dragons are more of a thing for Michaelmas (Sept 30) but this manuscript decided to have a holy cross (sept 15) dragon too. dragon-tember. #fragmentfriday

something fun about this fragment is that the text combines parts of two different chants, but the melody is continuous across them like it was supposed to be that way all along. chant remix! #FragmentFriday

today is the feast of the beheading of john the baptist, which in this fragment has red neumes for the invitatory #chant fragmentarium.ms/view/page/F-...

this fragment may have its battle scars, buts it's very practical: many simple formulae to be used for saints' feasts in Paschaltide, written out on uneven staff-lines (probably in the back of some other book.) #fragmentfriday fragmentarium.ms/view/page/F-...

this #fragmentfriday item has TWO fun bits of music on it! let's take a look at this binding for the accounts of St Leonard, Zoutleeuw, 1443-1469. On the one hand, some #chant for the fifth Sunday of Lent and two preceding days. fragmentarium.ms/view/page/F-...

this #fragmentfriday is the feast of St. Peter's Chains! it's what links these four fragments together.

some lovely German chant notation in this noted missal now in Toronto but originally from Würzburg (aka Herbipolis aka Plant City) #fragmentfriday fragmentarium.ms/view/page/F-...

the thing with cuttings is it's not always easy to tell what letter something is supposed to be. this one is labelled a "C", for example, but it kind of has a crossbar like an E. or a weird theta thing. fragmentarium.ms/view/page/F-...

some Italian neumes for #fragmentfriday fragmentarium.ms/view/page/F-...

chant manuscripts lost and found!

chant for when you want to hide in the cover of a book #fragmentfriday fragmentarium.ms/view/page/F-...

i'm just saying if *I* worked in a bindery in 1499 I would bind my mass commentaries with graduals and not antiphoners. more thematically appropriate, is all. #fragmentfriday fragmentarium.ms/view/page/F-...

#FragmentOfTheDay: Another Frauenfeld find. Wrapping Josse Clichtove's 1523 chart-topper Opusculum on War and Peace, this Passion is sure to please your friends who dig early #mensuralNotation and #polyphony. Late, early, or just on time, it's guaranteed to please. fragmentarium.ms/overview/F-6...

wanted: the S taken out of this Pentecost #chant. may or may not have cute little animals (see bottom of page) #fragmentfriday fragmentarium.ms/view/page/F-...

Ascension #chant from these two near-consecutive pages of the Beauvais Missal, now in Connecticut and Indiana respectively. #fragmentfriday fragmentarium.ms/view/page/F-...

can't decide what I like better: the tidy script, the chonky neumes, or the stitching right in the middle of the page. #fragmentfriday fragmentarium.ms/view/page/F-...

love a chant with a lil man-crawling-out-of-a-fish-head on the side #fragmentfriday fragmentarium.ms/view/page/F-...

Today is the feast of Brendan the Navigator! Rather than posting about his exciting adventures, I'm going to share some codicology. This is the opening of the *Navigatio* in @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social MS Laud Misc 237, f229v. See that little circle of lighter-colored parchment at bottom right? 🧵

happy May from these two ex-book bindings with texts for saint Walpurga

First (pieces of a) breviary from medieval Bristol discovered, and she's a beaut! (Kath Thompson with the find, I'm just the identifier heh) Reused as the wrapper for mid-16thc accounts.

italian illuminators: putting chant in your chant issuu.com/les_enluminu... #fragmentfriday

part of a missal (with musical notation but no staff lines) formerly used in a binding. chants and readings for the 4th week of Lent. fragmentarium.ms/view/page/F-...

#chant for Lent peeking out of this binding in Victoria, BC #fragmentfriday Probably originally from Spain (Léon? Zamora?) fragmentarium.ms/overview/F-s...

#ManuscriptMonday who doesn't love a bit of manuscript waste? This first edition of Simon Verepaeus' 1574 anthology of letters by famous Latin writers has been bound in contemporary blind-stamped pigskin and 15th century liturgical manuscript. Waste not, want not! ♻️ blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro...

Here is an in situ binding fragment of a notated 15th-century leaf. It includes parts of two hymns, one of which (Si bona suscepimus de manu domini mala) was sung during the celebration of the feast of Job. It is held at Goshen College’s Mennonite Historical Library in Goshen, Indiana. #medievalsky

Just acquired a 1639 Antwerp edition of The Life of Sancia Carrillo, a mystical daughter of Córdoba, written by Jesuit Martín de Roa. Bound in reused parchment from a medieval choirbook—vibrant initials, neumes, and history in one hand-sized gem. #bookhistory #maculature

just a little fragment with one tiny lil neume #fragmentfriday fragmentarium.ms/view/page/F-...

today in thematically appropriate binding reuse: print of ancient cooking guide bound with a #chant instructing you to "eat rich food and drink sweet things" #fragmentfriday Now in Sydney, Australia fragmentarium.ms/overview/F-6...

there are MYSTERIES to this unassuming bit of parchment. it appears to be a bit of Easter liturgy, probably English. why is it binding a book of Latin Poems in Antwerpen that was printed in Switzerland? #fragmentfriday fragmentarium.ms/view/page/F-...

#FragmentFriday is here! This is a leaf from a 16th-century Spanish antiphonal, perhaps used in Seville. The responsory verses surviving on this fragment are for the feast day for Martin, Bishop of Tours. Held at Xavier University in Cincinnati, Ohio. #medievalsky #medievalmss #midwestmss

the first Friday of Lent: a station in one church, representing another (John and Paul)--which was on a house on the tomb of two martyrs--contains a #chant about houses, here written on later, & again, & then used as accounts cover. lots of layering. like a lasagna. #fragmentfriday

this #fragmentfriday involved a virtual visit to NYC so here is a #chant fragment located @columbiauniversity.bsky.social fragmentarium.ms/overview/F-m...

Hello and happy #ManuscriptMonday (ish... 😬)! Pictured below is a fifteenth century German antiphonal. The volume opens with chants for vespers on Saint Nicholas's Day and ends with chants for the Sending Forth of the Apostles. Held at Earlham College in Richmond, Indiana. #medievalsky #medievalmss

(charter) business in the front, (chant) party in the back #fragmentfriday handrit.is/manuscript/v...

It's #FragmentFriday! Today we have a leaf from a late 14th or early 15th century French Book of Hours. The text comes from verses 12-22 of Psalm 101, one of the Seven Penitential Psalms. This leaf is held at Bowling Green State University in Bowling Green, Ohio. #medievalsky #medievalmss

For Valentine's Day: one of his earliest appearances in the Martyrologium Hieronymianum is in Saint Gall 914, the famous manuscript of the Rule that is the closest witness to Benedict's autograph. The manuscript is from the first ⅓ of the 9th c. and is in Alemannic minuscule, (short 🧵) #medievalsky