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Three boxes with manuscript fragments in Averbode.

Medieval liturgical manuscript fragments

Mass books

1 Several leaves of a noted missal; staffless Low Countries neumes; 12th century
2 Leaf of a noted missal; 12th century; staffless Low Countries neumes; Holy Week (grad. Christus factus, antiphons ad Mandatum)
3 Fragment of a noted missal; 12th century; staffless Low Countries neumes
4 Leaf of a noted missal; 13th century; Low Countries style staff notation on ink lines with red f-line
5 Incomplete double leaf of a gradual containing Easter chants; Low Countries staff notation on ink staves; 13th (?) century
6 Fragment of a small Mass book; 13th-14th century; square notation on red staves; parts of Requiem Mass
7 Fragment of a missal; 14th (?) century; Credo, preface, and a damaged depicture of the Crucifixion; Credo-incipit with Hufnagelschrift on red stave
8 Leaf of a sequentiary; 14th-15th (?) century; square notation on red staves; seq. Iocundare plebs fidelis
9 Fragment of a noted missal; 15th (?) century; square notation on red staves
10 Parts of a premonstratensian graduale; 16th century; square notation on red staves; several Kyriale sets, a.o. Kyrie Prelatorum; Salve regina; seq. Lauda Syon
11 Fragment of a missal; 16th century; square notation on red staves; Canon Missae (Te igitur etc.)
12 Leaves of a missal (not noted); 16th century

Office books

13 Leaf of a noted breviary (monastic cursus); staffless Low Countries neumes; 12th century; Feasts of Annuntiation of the Virgin and Benedictus. It may be from Malmédy, as Averbode has bought books there in the 19th century
14 Several leaves of a noted breviary (secular cursus); staffless Low Countries neumes; 12th century (2nd half)
15 Fragment of a 12th century noted breviary; Low Countries staff notation in ink lines with red f-line; Easter
16 A few leaves of a 12th century noted breviary; Low Countries staff notation on ink lines with red f-line; initials in red, green and blue
17 Several leaves of an antiphoner; Low Countries style staff notation (d-line in ink, f-line red, a-line green and c-line almost invisible); late 12th - early 13th century
18 Part of a leaf of a noted breviary; 15th (?) century; Hufnagelschrift on ink staves with red f-line
19 Leaf of an antiphoner; 15th century; Hufnagelschrift on ink staves; in one of the initials by an 18th century scribe: Frater Gerhoud Claessens Religiosus Everbod. 1765
20 Fragment of an antiphoner; 16th century; square notation on red staves; very similar to nr. 21 (but without dots on the -i-)
21 Some leaves of an antiphoner; 16th century; square notation on red staves; very similar to nr. 20

Varia

22 Leaves of a collectarius; 12th century; initials in red, green and blue; no notation
23 Fragment of a small Mass book or Procession book; 12th century; Low Countries staff notation on ink lines with red f-line; Easter etc (Exultet etc.); see nr. 24
24 Fragment of a small procession book; 12th century; maybe from the same manuscript as nr. 23
25 Psalter; 12th-13th century; some staffless Low Countries neumes
26 Some leaves of a week psalter (ferial office); 13th century; antiphons with Hufnagelschrift in ink staves with red f-line
27 Leaf of a capitularium (?); 14th century
28 Incomplete double leaf of a book for both Mass and Office (a.o. Lauda Syon); 14th century; Hufnagelschrift on ink staves
29 Two double leaves of a Passion; 15th century; square notation on red staves
30 Fragment of a chant book; 16th century; square notation on red staves
31 Fragment of an unidentified liturgical book, dirty and illegible; cursive script; traces of Hufnagelschrift on ink staves
32 Fragment of an unidentified liturgical book

Post-medieval liturgical manuscript fragments

33 Fragment of a liturgical book with intonations; 16th-17th century; square notation on red staves
34 Double leaf with Gloria, Credo, Sanctus, Agnus and Abite figurae / O amor O Deus; 16th-17th century
35 Leaf with a Missa Norbertina (Kyrie, Gloria and Credo); 16th-17th century
36 Leaf with a Salve regina; 17th century; square notation
37 Double leaf with a Missa (Kyrie-Gloria-Credo-Sanctus-Agnus-Ite missa est) with the indication cum expressione; 17th century (parchment); square notation
38 Gathering with one part of a Missa Solemnis (17th century ?) with indications for an organ (Tantum ergo-Kyrie-Gloria-Credo-Sanctus-Agnus-Genitori genitoque), followed by a 2-part Hymnus s. Huberti Huberto dei famulo episcopo

Non-liturgical manuscript fragments

39 Fragment in small gothic textualis script, written in 2 columns; 13th-4th century
40 Fragment written in small cursive script; perhaps sermons (?)
41 Fragment written in small cursive script; perhaps sermons (?)
42 Leaf; 13th century; in small textualis script
43 Small fragment in small illegible script
44 Double leaf; 13th-14th century
45 Gathering; 13th century
46 Copy of some charters; 16th century (?); hybrida script
47 Fragment of a charter
48 Charter; starting: Adrianus
49 Double leaf; ?
50 Piece of parchment used as book binding material

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I sorted out the fragments in February 2001
Last change: Tue 01 January 2002