H. Mayo. Descriptive Inventories, Austrian Libraries, vol. 3 (Collegeville, 1985)
Notes:
A number of fragments bound together, most incomplete at beginning and end; composition of gatherings not visible on microfilm.
Provenance:
The MS, of which at least ff. 35-80 are apparently of Bohemian origin (ff. 37v, 38r), belonged in 1583 to Durnstein. It presumably passed to Herzogenburg after the dissolution of Durnstein in 1788.
Gothic neumes on 4-line staves, ff 11r-18v, 20r-23v, 25r-30v, also occassionally elsewhere, cf. ff. 1r-34v.
Manuscript Text
Folio:
Ff. 1r-10v
Supplied Title:
Liturgical notes and fragments: Office of the Virgin Mary, Ordinary of Compline, versicles and prayers.
Language(s):
Latin
Notes To Text:
f. 9v: Gothic neumes on 3-line staves.
Manuscript Text
Folio:
Ff. 11r-18v
Supplied Title:
Antiphonary
Status Of Text:
A fragment, with short textual and musical incipits for the items listed.
Language(s):
Latin
Notes To Text:
18v: Liturgical note added in contemporary hand. Each page has five 4-line staves with Gothic neumes.
Manuscript Text
Folio:
19r-19v
Supplied Title:
Antiphons and differentiae for Prime-None
Rubric:
In visitacione beate Marie virginis.
Language(s):
Latin
Notes To Text:
Gothic neumes on 4-line staves.
Manuscript Text
Folio:
20r-21v
Supplied Title:
Blessings for Matins, fer 4 - Sabbato.
Language(s):
Latin
Notes To Text:
Each page has five 4 - line staves.
Manuscript Text
Folio:
21v-23r
Supplied Title:
Alternate melodies for the hymns of the Little Hours: Iam lucis orto sidere, Nunc sancte nobis spiritus, Rector potens, Rerum deus tenax.
Language(s):
Latin
Notes To Text:
The first line of the melody for each is given as for general use, and as for feasts of the Virgin, feasts of the apostles, Sundays, and weekdays. Each page has five 4-line staves with Gothic neumes.
Manuscript Text
Folio:
23r-23v
Supplied Title:
First lines of the first psalms for Sunday Prime, Terce, Sext and None and of all of the psalms for Sunday Vespers, set to the first tone.
Language(s):
Latin
Notes To Text:
Each page has five 4-line staves with Gothic neumes.
Manuscript Text
Folio:
24r-24v
Supplied Title:
sequitur quliter per totum anni circulum benedicciones cantantur tam de tempore quam de sanctis.
Language(s):
Latin
Notes To Text:
Continued on ff. 25rb - 25v
Manuscript Text
Folio:
25ra, 26r-28v
Supplied Title:
Ordinale. Antiphon intonations and differentiae ad horas.
Language(s):
Latin
Notes To Text:
Christimas, 25r, Easter, 26r, and ends 28v with De virginibus...Antiphone feriales. Eight or nine 4 - line staves per page with Gothic neumes; each page divded into two columns by two lines ruled down the center.
Manuscript Text
Folio:
29r-30v
Supplied Title:
Depositio crucifixi
Status Of Text:
Incompelete at the end; there may also be a lacuna after f. 29.
Rubric:
In parasceve finitis vesperis et sepulcro preparato clerus deferat crucifixum ad sepulcrum lugubri voce contans: Revelabunt celi iniquitatem . . .
Language(s):
Latin
Notes To Text:
Seven or eight 4-line staves per page with Gothic neumes.
Manuscript Text
Folio:
31r
Supplied Title:
Collect
Rubric:
Collecta
Incipit:
Deus qui per beate Marie virginis partum . . .
Language(s):
Latin
Notes To Text:
31v blank.
Manuscript Text
Folio:
32r-34v
Supplied Title:
Versicles, chapters and collects in a variety of hands for Christmas, Epiphany, Easter, Ascension, Pentecost, Corpus Christi and De beat virgine.
Language(s):
Latin
Notes To Text:
f. 34r Intonation and differentia for the antiphon Venturus est veniet.
Manuscript Text
Folio:
35r-80v
Supplied Title:
Breviarium. Commemorationes Beatae Mariae Virginis et patronorum. Psalms and hymns.
