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BENEVENTAN MISSAL. MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM
[Bari or Apulia, second half of the 11th century]
234 x 155mm. Fragment of 12 leaves, two series of 3 bifolia, including first leaf of melodies with neumes, 21 long lines in a fine Beneventan minuscule of large size, ruled in blind with hardpoint, double bounding lines, justification: 207 x 93mm, written in brown ink, rubrics in red, small initials with yellow, red or blue wash, 106 three-line capitals, including 20 intertwined initials, mostly with foliate decoration and zoomorphic finials filled with yellow, blue, red and green wash. (Many leaves cropped at foot, occasional wear and some staining). Modern vellum binding.
The present text contains portions of the offertorium, followed by the secrets and the communion cycle, probably for the Common of Saints.
The musical leaf is remarkable, the text appears to be a hymn or trope, the incipit is Libera nos quaesumus domine omnibus malis, not in Blume and Dreves, Analecta Hymnica. The musical passages comprise Beneventan neumes of single notes without the support of clefs or staves, indicative of a script earlier than the 12th century, with the text interlinear in a much smaller script and in a different hand from the rest of the manuscript.
This manuscript written in the characteristic Beneventan script of Bari, a peculiar variety of South Italian minuscule, is unrecorded and does not appear in E.A. Lowe's or Virginia Brown's census of extant Beneventan manuscripts.
[Bari or Apulia, second half of the 11th century]
234 x 155mm. Fragment of 12 leaves, two series of 3 bifolia, including first leaf of melodies with neumes, 21 long lines in a fine Beneventan minuscule of large size, ruled in blind with hardpoint, double bounding lines, justification: 207 x 93mm, written in brown ink, rubrics in red, small initials with yellow, red or blue wash, 106 three-line capitals, including 20 intertwined initials, mostly with foliate decoration and zoomorphic finials filled with yellow, blue, red and green wash. (Many leaves cropped at foot, occasional wear and some staining). Modern vellum binding.
The present text contains portions of the offertorium, followed by the secrets and the communion cycle, probably for the Common of Saints.
The musical leaf is remarkable, the text appears to be a hymn or trope, the incipit is Libera nos quaesumus domine omnibus malis, not in Blume and Dreves, Analecta Hymnica. The musical passages comprise Beneventan neumes of single notes without the support of clefs or staves, indicative of a script earlier than the 12th century, with the text interlinear in a much smaller script and in a different hand from the rest of the manuscript.
This manuscript written in the characteristic Beneventan script of Bari, a peculiar variety of South Italian minuscule, is unrecorded and does not appear in E.A. Lowe's or Virginia Brown's census of extant Beneventan manuscripts.