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Jun 16, 2023 10 tweets 5 min read Read on X
what #chant got snipped off this lovely manuscript? a #FragmentFriday mystery! Image
We've got "maria", and then something with a y--probably "hymnus". So likely a minor responsory for Vespers or Lauds of a Marian feast, followed by the hymn--but we can only read the bottoms of the letters! fragmentarium.ms/view/page/F-f3…
one word looks like maybe it's "chorus". "chorus" is a pretty popular word in hymns it turns out. ImageImageImageImage
and let's say "maria" isn't much of a clue... ImageImageImageImage
but can we find something where "maria" and "chorus" could be close together? how about this nice hymn for Purification? Image
it's juuuust possible you would sing this lovely responsory beforehand, if you were in Belgium anyway. and it was vespers. (you'd have sung it that day before, so "Gaude maria. hymnus: Quod chorus" is all the MS gives.) Image
so what does that make the fancy blue letter? looks like the chant starts with C 🍪🍪🍪... Image
one strong contender is the antiphon "cum inducerent" (often for Lauds, sometimes Vespers). Image
i could believe that that last word is "puerum". So: probably the Magnificat antiphon at second Vespers of Purification! Image
no idea what this is on the other side though, sorry Image

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Aug 10, 2022
this is not a #chant #fragment but it not #chant in a pretty interesting way! also Tudor music is fun so here is a thread about a "Fayrfax" "O lux" (scare quotes on both counts) 1/
so this is a lil piece of instrumental polyphony, written (somewhat unusually) in score notation. the paper has some 6-line staffs, so it probably was meant for a few vocal lines and some lute tabs, but our guy is using the six-line staff for the top bc it has the most wiggles.2/ Image
piece also has some little rhythmic games where you count 4 against 3. very popular hobby in sixteenth-century Britain: seeing if you can throw off your fellow musicians. 3/ Image
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Jul 29, 2022
sometimes fragments are bits of nice books that got repurposed, but sometimes they're really genuinely scrappy, like this lil guy fragmentarium.ms/view/page/F-co… Image
doesn't seem to be anything on the back, and the chants are a bit of an odd combination, too. gonna choose to believe this was somebody's cue sheet.
v.thoughtful of this worm to munch alongside but not through the music

happy #FragmentFriday! Image
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Aug 20, 2021
having a delightful #FragmentFriday with these bits of binding. Fun With Fragments up ahead...
This guy in the lower left has 1) a piece of John 15:6-7 2) a tiny bit of the chant Gloria et honore ("...tuarum") cantusindex.org/id/g01260
3) a prayer, Apostolici reverentia.
All that checks out for some sort of vigil mass for an apostle. There's a little A where you'd expect the name to be, "beati A...", but A for Apostle or A for Andrew? Either way, probably a page at the end of its book, easy pickings for binding material. 3/
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