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happy feast of st walburga to all who celebrate #fragmentfriday

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

so this one is very fun because 1. green staff lines are fun but also

some #fragmentfriday neumes, with bonus wormhole from use in a binding

And post 2, with neumed Visigothic goodness: bsky.app/profile/cari... [2/2]

Call for Papers : "Scraps of the Sacred" colloquium on liturgical fragments, July 1-3, Fribourg, Switzerland Abstracts due March 6 sites.google.com/view/scraps-...

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-...

Call for Papers : "Scraps of the Sacred" colloquium on liturgical fragments, July 1-3, Fribourg, Switzerland Abstracts due March 6 sites.google.com/view/scraps-...

new valentine's card idea: recycled chant fragments #fragmentfriday

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...

who's just a TINY LITTLE NEUME hiding away in this binding #fragmentfriday

love a good musical diagram!

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