Porvoo, Borgå Gymnasium’s Library, Parchment fragment A. Antiphonary

Title

Description

Antiphonary(?)

Publisher

Finnish Literature Society (SKS)

Codices Fennici

Date

1300-1399

Saec. XIV

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Format

Parchment

Language

Latin

Identifier

Porvoo
Borgå Gymnasium’s Library
Parchment fragment A

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Porvoo, Borgå Gymnasium’s Library, Parchment fragment A. Antiphonary

Saec. XIV

(?)

Antiphonary

(?)

Liturgical fragment, probably from an antiphonary, with part of the antiphon ‘in diebus dominicis’

[1r]

... vigilantes custodes nos dormentes ... Venite exultemus domino iubilemus deo ...

[2v]

... Domine ne in ira tua arguas me neque|

Parchment

2
30cm × 40,5cm (22cm × 31,5cm)

No foliation.

The fragment is in good condition.

9 lines of notation with text.

One hand writing a Gothic Textualis of

saec. XIV

Square notes on a red four-line stave.

Red and blue initials with flourishing in the opposite colour. Rubrics in red. Emphasis of majuscules in red.

Not bound.

Parchment fragment of a liturgical manuscript of unknown provenance. It is plausible that the manuscript was in use in

Finland

during the middle ages and was taken apart for binding material after the reformation.

No available information on provenance.

This fragment came to the collections of the

Borgå Gymnasium’s library

at an unknown date.

Cataloguer

Ville Walta

Finnish Literature Society (SKS)

Codices Fennici

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