2 folios. 21 x ca. 29.5 cm. 1 column, 11 lines. The top of the whole bif. and the inner edge ofifi 1 have been cut out. Partly dark and corrugated.
(14-)15th cc. Only dark blue large initials are visible. Small initials highlighted with red. Line-fillers (red braid-like ornament) under melismas. Quadratic notation on a red four-line staff (14-14.5 mm, ruled with a rastrum), custos, linea. The red colour in this manuscript, used in rubrics, initials, staff etc., is exceptionally light. Photograph ofifi. 2 on p. 141.
ANTIPHONARIUM.A series of six antiphons is the first unit visible, but no rubric clarifies what the hour is, or what are the hours they are documented for. Owing to the fact that the series is followed by three great responsories (Were there more in the original manuscript ?) it is possible that all these chants together represent the I nocturn. Thus this fragment may originate from a monastic antiphoner.
After the great responsories on f. 2 (three chants, the last one lacking the doxology) three psalm antiphons follow. Then an ant. ad Benedictus (Egredietur uirga) and psalm antiphons for the little hours of daytime are given. Because of the defective state of this manuscript the order of the antiphons at lauds (?) is not possible to determine, nor whether they belong to lauds at all.
F. 1 [Annuntiationis Mariae] beginning with an item that cannot be identified because of the fragmentary state of the leaf. Ends qui, the third word of the resp. Radix iesse. "Sp Contents: ant. [Missus est angelus], ant. [Ave Maria Do]minus, ant. [Benedicta tu in], ant. [Quomodo]fiat (sic) istud, ant. Prophetepredicaueruut, ant. Ecce in nuhibus, resp. Missus est gab[riel] VAue Maria, resp. Aue maria V Quomodo, resp. Radix iesse qui.
F. 2 [Idem] continuing with the resp. [Videbuntgentes] V Et eris from a passage that cannot be identified because of the fragmentary state of the leaf. Ends et habitabo of the ant. at nones, Gaude et letare. "3s Contents: resp. [Videbunt gentes] V Et eris, resp. Emitte agnum V Ostende nobis, resp. Gaude maria V Gabrielem (tsa), ant. Beatam me dicent, ant. undeterminable, ant. [Ave Mariagratia\, ant. ad Benedictus Egredietur uirga de, ant. at prime Ecce uirgo concipiet, ant. at terce Ecce concipies in vtero, ant. at sext Ecce ancilla domini, ant. at nones Gaude et letare.
F. 2" 4648 "Tull Registher Som Opboren Wdij Osthre Batnen Anno etc 62".
DATE: Probably saec. xv. LITURGICAL USE: Indeterminate, probably monastic.