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Families of Neumatic Notalions
North Italian - Milanese Missive - Mitz, Clairvaux, Laon
Central Italian - Anezzo French (Norman) - Roman
Beneuentan - Naples, Monte Cassino Chantres - Solesmes, Touns
Anglo Saxon Aquitanian - Limoges, Lyons
St. Gall - Einsiedeln Visfothic (Mozanabic) - Toledo
German - Bamberg Catalonian

The diastematic system followed an imaginary horizonatal line
around which the neums were arranged. Examples of this are
found as far back as the 9th C + by the 10th Chad become common
practice. It would seem that the system originated in Southern
Italy. By the end of the 10th C the imaginary line became a
real one. The line drawn without ink (dry point) at the
begining of the 11th C was later traced in red, it then
meant f. The upper c1 was indicated by a yellow line. In
French, English +Italian manuscripts c1 is sometimes found in
green + in French manuscripts f also. Not very long afterwards
letters which we know as clefs appeared at the beginning
of the lines making the column of the line superfluous; but
colored lines continued in Italy until the end of the 12th C,
and are found even later in England + Germany.

1) Ambrose used the unrhymed iambic dimeter, a simple +
singable form which has been in vogue even since at first
unrhymed after the original models + later rhymed. 12) Heamanrous Contractus
2) Hilary, Bishop of Poitius (c 310-366) 10) Notken of St. Gall - Balbulus 11) Walsfrid Strabo
3) Prudentius (398-413?) - Cathemerimon - Peristephamon
4) Fortunatus (c. 530-600) 5) Sedulius 6) Magnus Ennodius (573-521)
7) Gregorian Magnus (c. 540-600) 8) Venerable Bede [inserted] f. mid 5th C. [end inserted] 9) Rabenus Maunus
Carolingian rulers - Pippin, Charlemagne, Louis the Pious +
Charles the Bald [inserted] 897 [end inserted] - guided the destinies of the Franks.
Mark 15:25 "And it was the third hour, + they crucified
him."