MISSAL: LINEAR STAFFLESS NEUMES

MS 1275/19
MS Short Title MISSAL: LINEAR STAFFLESS NEUMES
Text MISSAL: TEMPORAL, MASS FOR PASSION SUNDAY, WITH READING: BIBLE: HEBREWS 9:15
Description MS in Latin on vellum, France (or Germany?), ca. 950, 1 partial f., 9x12 cm, 1 of 2 columns, (9x11 cm remaining, column width 11 cm), 9 lines in an upright square Carolingian minuscule in 2 sizes, 6 lines of diastematic (heightened) staffless Metz neumes, liturgical headings in red.
Context Inserted in the Le Moine palaeography handbook, MS 1275/01.
Provenance 1. Cathedral of Toul, Lorraine (ca. 950-1761); 2. Pierre-Camille Le Moine, archivist and secretary of the cathedral of Toul (1761-1789); 3. M. le baron de Tremont, no. 1253; 4. M. Marchant, Saint-Mihiel; 5. François-Jean Baptiste Noël, Nancy, no 6205 (-1856); 6. Bruce Ferrini, Akron, Ohio.
Place of origin France (or Germany?)
Dates ca 950 AD