This collection comprises 191 items of which 43 are listed here, including the 4 earliest ones. The presentation here aims at giving a fairly comprehensive overview of the main types of musical notation in Europe in the period 9th to 15th c, with some Asian notations added.
This collection starts with Christianity's earliest liturgical manuscripts from the 3rd century AD and comprises a great variety of liturgical texts of the Roman Catholic, Greek, Russian and Syrian Orthodox churches.
Here, 17 manuscripts are presented online out of a collection of all together 133 items spanning 3rd century to 16th century AD. This section covers central medieval texts and supplements the Bible Collection.
MS in Arabic on pink paper, Andalusia, Spain (or North Africa), in a monumental Maghrebi script and other scripts.
