4 folios. 20 x ca. 30 cm. I column. I 7 (?) Hues. The outer edge off. I has been cut out, as well as the bottom of bif. 3 14. Ff. 2 and 4 are also damaged in other places. Some dark blurs. Bif 3/4 was restored in 1990.
13th é". Large initials: 1) orange-red (ochre), ornamented variously with green and orangered hairlines, and 2) green, ornamented with orange-red hairlines. In small initials orangered and dark brown colours are visible. Continental protogothic minuscule, see e.g. Brown 1990 pp. 74-75. Line-fillers (orange-red braid-like ornaments) under melismas. Early quadratic notation on a dark brown four-line staff (8.5-10.5 mm), a clear cephalicus with a thin tail, Droste 1983 pp. 44-47 ("hair-tailedform"). Those with thicker tails do not appear at all. B rotundum used as a clef. Photograph off. 2 on p. 16. SRA KA Östergötland 1548:6:1 "Jöns Korps Rekenskap pro anno 1548 Fogte öffwerAska Härett" (detachedfrom the taxbook), is the bif. inside our bif. 3/4.
ANTIPHONARIUM. Stylistic elements in the palaeography suggest English or northern French origin. The liturgical contents make it very obvious, however, that this is a fragment of an English manuscript. Lauds of St. John the Evangelist in its reformed order points to the breviary of Linköping, Breviarium Lincopense 1950-1958 p. 231, and Helaimder 1957 p. 301.
The original codex contained three consecutive offices (sic) for St. Thomas of Canterbury (can. 1173).The wrapper in the Swedish National Archives, mentioned over, includes the second of them (below: II), beginning with the ant. Martyr Thoma martyr Dei. The office differs greatly from the version published in Analecta hymnica XIII1892 No. 93.
Concerning the first office (below: I), its two great responsories, antiphons at lauds, and antiphons adpsalmos and ad Magnificat at II vespers are also known from other sources, see Toy 1981 pp. 351-354. On the other hand, no other sources for the chants in the third one (below: III) are known to the present writer.
F 1 [Stephani protomartyris| beginning omnibus pati of the resp. at matins, [Lapides torrentes I ' Mortem], and ending in a series of anriphon incipits (text and music), the last of which is illegible. Hymn: Martir dei qui (tsa), resp. O martyrum I'Qui pro. Responsories and antiphons are given as a series; [Memoriae] de natali et de sancta maria.
F. 2 [Johannis evangelistae] beginning with the second last resp. at matins, but the chant cannot be identified because of the fragmentary state of the leaf. «" Resp. Vox tonitruj VVicto. Hymns: Exultet celum xpiste (tsa).An annotation in the margin makes a correction to the series of antiphons at iauds.The original order is: Hjc est discipulus ille (some words changed), Hie est discipulus meus, Ecce puer meus, Sunt de hie stantibus, Sic eum uolo. The new order: Ecce puer meus, Hie est discipulus ille, Misit dominus (ta), Sunt de hk stantibus, Johannes autem. See Hesbert 1963 pp. 48-49. A series of antiphons follows II vespers, but no rubric indicates the function of these chants; De Sanctis innocentibus ending xpisto cesa of the 1st ant., Splendet bethlehemicus, as far as may be determined. No more items remain. F. 3 [Thomae Cantuariensis episcopi et martyris (I)] beginning [soljlempni laude beatissimi of the invitatory (unidentified), and ending in the 2nd resp. of the III nocturn, Quinto post natale V Sanguis, but the passage cannot be identified because of the fragmentary state of the leaf. Only two responsories are given for each nocturn. The office continues on the double leaf mentioned before, preserved in the Swedish National Archives.
Two great responsories encountered here (Exiit cdictum VAlma domus and Defensor fidei VVeri pastores) are also found in a fragment of a noted breviary, SRA KA Uppland 1550:9 (2 folios, supposedly from the 14th c). F. 4 [Ut supra (III)] beginning [prae]elect[...] of the ant. (ad Magnificat ?) at I vespers, [Cantet mater ecdesia]. Ends in the 2nd ant. of the III noct., In omnibus, but the passage cannot be identified because of the fragmentary state of the leaf. |®° Due to darkness of the written space not all chants on f. 4r are satisfactorily legible. Antiphons and great responsories otherwise presently unknown.
F. 2" 2977 "Aårlige Rentan aff 5 Socknar vty Borgo Länn pro anno 1549". F 4'2611 "Torsten Hindrickssons Regenskap och opbörd på Aland pro anno etc 1547"."Norland 1547 No 6".
Lit.: Taitto 1992 (c) p. 66; Taitto 1994 (a) p. 181 (b/w reproduction off. 4'); An edition of the fragment (6 folios) is in preparation.
DATE: Saec. xiii in. (Taitto); probably saec. xii 2/2, xii/xiii also suggested (Niskanen 2010); saec. xiii also suggested (MPO). LITURGICAL USE: Primary use: Probably England (Taitto); Northern France also suggested (Niskanen). Secondary use: Diocese of Linköping suggested. ORIGIN: England and Northern France suggested (Taitto); probably England or France or Anglo-French influence (Niskanen 2010). OTHER NOTES: From the same codex: MPO Codex 1516 = CCM Ant 325 (Stockholm, Riksarkivet: Kammararkivet Fr 3964 Västmanlands handlingar 1549:8:6; Fr 10462 Medicinalväsen 4:2 1578-1579; Fr 29757 Östergötlands handlingar 1548:6:1 Jöns Korps räkenskap för Aska härad (3 fr., 5 fol.).