Bologna Neumes Missal | MS 105

MISSAL: BOLOGNA NEUMES

MS 105
MS Short Title MISSAL: BOLOGNA NEUMES
Text MISSAL: THE MASSES FOR ST. JOHN THE EVANGELIST AND HOLY INNOCENTS
Description MS in Latin on vellum, Bologna, Italy, 11th c., 1 f., 31x21 cm, 2 columns, (27x19 cm), 34 lines in an archaistic Carolingian minuscule of 2 sizes, headings in red, Bologna diastematic ( heightened) staffless neumes, 9 initials in red or marked with red, of these 2 5/6-line initials "I", a Maltese type cross.
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Provenance 1. Bernard Rosenthal Collection, San Francisco, I/196 (1966-1987); 2. Quaritch Cat. 1088(1988):39.
Commentary Location and dating is difficult. Marvin Colker suggests France; John A. Emerson suggests Beauvais, Senlis or Soissons, both 12th c. Bologna region 11th c. is suggested by K.D. Hartzell, cf. Vat. lat. 4770 or Angelica 123 for similar notation. Bologna notation and North Spain notation have many neumes in common, present here, while the pes, clivis and torculus present here are distinctively North Spain notation. .
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Place of origin Bologna
Dates 11c AD