[Breviarium, notated]

[Breviarium, notated]

Leaf from an office book (that would later be termed breviary) containing chants and lessons for matins of the feast of the Trinity (celebrated on the Sunday after Pentecost); six lessons (readings) are present here; with musical notation. The cues for the repetenda within the responsories are written in rustic capitals. Thanks to Prof. Susan Boynton (Columbia University, Dept. of Music) for her description of the musical notation.

Parchment; one leaf; ruled in dry point on the flesh side for 28 lines of text. Written in a late caroline minuscule; music notated in staffless neumes. Rubrication for the chant genres.

Written in France (?), towards the end of the 11th century. Belonged to Louis Charles Elson (1848-1920) who was a professor of music theory and history at the New England Conservatory of Music from age 34 onwards; he had begun studying music with his mother, then went on to study in Leipzig; he composed songs, operetta and works for the piano, but mainly he studied and wrote on the history of music; he published in a number of Boston newspapers, and was the editor-in-chief of Modern Music and Musicians (1912; 20 vols.) and of the University Musical Encyclopedia (1912-14; 10 vols.), among the ca. 50 items that he published over the course of his life. The collection of medieval fragments of music that had belonged to Louis Charles Elson was acquired in 1924 by the Grovesnor Library in Buffalo NY; this library, together with the Erie County Library and the Buffalo Public Library merged in 1953 to form today's Buffalo and Erie County Public Library. This leaf was n. 3 in the Elson collection (his name and the number, on an oval sticker attached to the upper recto). Stamp of the library (as BECPL) in lower margin of the recto.

Latin text.

Title from De Ricci.

De Ricci. Census, p. 1209, no. 3

[11th century]

2023-12-14

Louis C. Elson Collection. no. 3

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1 leaf (28 lines) ; 29 x 20 cm

parchment (animal material)

RBR Mss. C33B7 1000z

[France]

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