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1100F=$138.36 Sept. 1983
Rossignol
Quai St. Michel, Paris
Manuscript leaf in Latin on vellum - Breviary
5 1/16 x 7 1/4" Frace. 13th C (late) 1280. p. 29, 30
Gothic script. Alternating initial in red + blue with penwork
See #325 in the contrasting color. 2 columns.
See Meggs Bros. Ltd. Bulletin #12 33-35 Square musical notation on red 4 lines starve, 15 stoves
to a page.
Noted Sanctorum. Including office of Inventio - a feast said to have been introduced before 1157. Sancti Stephani (August 3)
Stephani, pope, martyr (Aug 2)
p's=psalmus (XIV) c.
Psalm 4 = Cum invocarem exardivit me Deus justitiae meae: -
* 5= Verba mea auribus percipe Donime: intellige -
An early example of square notation in which all Gregorian chant
came to be written. A=antiphon Ps=psalm R=response
V=versicle
In the breviary, Matins + Lauds constitue the 'Night
Office' with Matins including 3 Nocturns on night prayers,
each with 3 psalms, which correspond with the 3 night
watchers between night + dawn.
(Cap) captials - short extracts from the Psalms.
The Gradual psalms (15) - 119-32 sometimes considered
to be those recited by Jewish pilgims 'going up'
(grades, a step).
The line representing C is indicated by a primative clef
sign. Two notelike marks flanking the line at the beginning of
each 4 line staff (?) Elsewhere when one note is written about
another the bottom note is sung first
-written in a round gothic hand in red + black with the words
accompanying the music in a small neat gothic.
-Drawing - often in 2 or more vol.
"Writer" devotions - for the feast from Advent through
Easter.
The earliest appearance of staven (originally of 4 lines)
dates from the 15th C.
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