14th c. The following large initials are visible: 1) light blue, ornamented with red hairlines, and 2) red (close to vermilion), ornamented with blue hairlines. Small initials highlighted with red. Quadratic notation on a red four-line staff (9.5 mm, ruled with a rastrum), linea (not many), b rotundum, cephalicus. The incipits of antiphons are indicated by duplex lineae. Photograph off. 2" on p. 60.
ANTIPHONARIUM. Probably produced for the archdiocese of Uppsala, cf. Breviarium Upsalense 1496 ff. [C vj]r"', [D ij]' - [D vij]'.
Also Helander 1989 p. 113 n. 52 writes that this fragment is Upsalense. He assigns its date to the end of the 13th century or beginning of the 14th. The simple observance (commemoration) of St.Anskar must represent the fading of the first flourish of the cult. Otherwise the memory of St.Anskar was not popular in the archdiocese until the end of the 15th century. Helander 1989 pp. 113,118; Idem 2001 p. 143 n. 243.
F. 1 [Conversionis Pauli apostoli] beginning ag[noscere], the closing word of the ant. ad Magnificat at I vespers, [Ogloriosttm lumen],and ending in the differentia of the 2nd ant. of the II nocturn, [Surge ait Dominus]. w Since the text of the last mentioned ant. ends in the this reading is shorter than that in the printed breviary of Uppsala, Breviarium Upsalense 1496 f. [C vj]". E 2 [Purificationis Mariae| beginning et hominem of the 3rd resp. of the III noct., [Gaude Maria] V Gabrielem; Sequitur de sancto blasio antiphona; [...] collecta de sancto ans[gario|; [ Agathae virginis]. cs"The three last mentioned observances appear only in a rubric which gives St. Blasius and St.Anskar as a commemoration, whereas for St. Agatha a common office is assigned; [Sigfridi episcopi et confessoris] ending magnifi[cemus] of the ant. ad Magnificat at I vespers, [/;; hy]mnis et confessionibus.
The bifolium was once attached to another vellum (now unknown).
Lit.: Helander 1989 p. 113 n. 52; Idem 2001 pp. 143, 159, 162.
DATE: Saec. xiii ex., saec. xiv in. also suggested. LITURGICAL USE: Probably archdiocese of Uppsala. ORIGIN: Added according to liturgical use.