| Liturgical fragments in Tongerlo: OLV-Abdij |
The abbey archive of Tongerlo abbey contains a number of liturgical membra disiecta. These are not summed up by Corthouts. Some of the fragments are from the 12th or 13th century and bear Hufnagelschrift (AAT V membra disiecta 2-3 and AAT V membra disiecta 3). The larger part is from the 15th-16th century and bears mainly square notation. Some of the fragments have a remarkable resemblance, and are probably from the same scriptorium.
The archive possesses typescript descriptions of part of them, made by Michel Vangool. Vangool sometimes was able to name the books in which the fragments were re-used; sometimes these are premonstratensian books.
AAT = Abdij Archief Tongerlo; the Roman numerals indicate the section of the archive; the Arabic numerals indicate the number of the document.
These fragments are kept in folders in Sectie V of the abbey archive. It is not known from which book or binding they are loosened. I only made descriptions of fragments containing chant.
 | AAT V, membra disiecta 1: Antiphonarium (1 bifolium: ff. xxv en xxx); square notation on red staves; 15th century; provenance: diocese Luik. Measures: 40<170>50 (260) x 15<250>67 (332). Contents: Servatius (ant. Inquiramus sapienter ... servatium), Marian feast |
Several fragments, three of them bearing music notation. I have numbered these 2-1, 2-2 en 2-3 (the numbering is not on the fragments).
 | AAT V membra disiecta 2-1: Antiphonarium (half of a folium), square notation on red staves, 15th century. Measures: ca 190 x 150 mm. Contents: hymn Celi deus sanctissime and a psalm |
| | AAT V membra disiecta 2-2: notated Breviarium (1 folium: f. cxiiii), square notation on red staves; provenance: Boterdael, Brabantia Praemonstratensis (?). Measures: 65<215>50 (330) x 40<245>90 (375). Contents: Good Friday (parts of resp. Barrabas latro) |
| | AAT V membra disiecta 2-3: Graduale (one strip); Hufnagelschrift on ink staves with red f-line and yellow c-line; late 12th or early 13th century. Measures: 21<55| (76) x 34<250>34 (318). Contents: Christmas (gr. Tecum principium, co. In splendoribus; in. Lux fulgebit; verse Mirabilis Deus to off. Deus enim) |
 | AAT V membra disiecta 3: notated Breviary (1 folium and 1 bifolium), Hufnagelschrift on staves; late 12th (or early 13th) century. Provenance: Tongerlo (without arguments). Measures: 35<85>10<85>15 (230) x 20<255>57 (332) Contents: Stephani inventio |
| | AAT V membra disiecta 4: Antiphonarium (1 bifolium), square notation on red staves, 15th-16th century; provenance Besloten Hof. Measures: 50<185| (235) x 37<280>33 (350). Contents: Johannes Baptista; Johannes & Paulus |
| | AAT V membra disiecta 5: Lectionarium (1 bifolium), no music notation, 16th century |
Some of the fragments are still in situ, in use as a flyleaf or cover. Most of them are encountered in books or documents in Sectie II of the archive. Descriptions (and transcriptions of the texts) of many of them are made by Michel Vangool.
 | AAT II 37 (cover): Sequentiarium (half folium), square notation on red staves, 15th-16th century. Measures: 37<230>62 (329) x |205|. Contents: sequences for Mary: Ave plena singularis and Ave maria gracia plena |
| | AAT II 51 (cover): Antiphonale (ca 1 folium), square notation on red staves, 15th century. Measures: ca |225| x |360|. Contents: Good Friday (resp. Barrabas latro) |
| | AAT II 64 (cover): Antiphonale (ca 1 folium), square notation on red staves, 15th century. Measures: |210| x |10<350>32 (392). Contents: Petrus & Paulus |
| | AAT II 92 (cover): Missale (1 bifolium), some empty red staves, before 1504 (according to Vangool). Contents: Commune Evangelistarum, Corpus Christi |
| | AAT II 114 (fly leaves): Graduale Praem. (?) (two half folia), Hufnagelschrift and square notation on red staves, 15th-16th century, Provenance: Tongerlo (?). Measures: 65<220>5| (290) x |135>100 (235). Contents: Profession, Missa pro pestilentia |
| | AAT II 121: (fly leaf): Breviarium Praem. (1 folium), square notation on red staves, 15th-16th century. Measures: 100<215| (215) x 45<285>125 (455). Contents: Sulpitius (resp. Almifluus presul domini Sulpicius). From the same manuscript as AAT II 180 (fly leaf) and AAT II 379 (cover) |
| | AAT II 156: Breviarium Praem. (1 incomplete bifolium), empty space instead of music notation, 15th-16th century. Contents: Sunday Lauds. From the same manuscript as AAT II 164 |
| | AAT II 164: Breviarium Praem. (1 incomplete bifolium). From the same manuscript as AAT II 156 |
| | AAT II 180 (flyleaf): Breviarium Praem. (ca. 2 half leaves), square notation on red staves, 15th-16th century. Measures: 100<210| (310) x |285>110 (395). Contents: a.o. Mariae Visitatio. From the same manuscript as AAT II 121 (fly leaf) and AAT II 379 (cover) |
| | AAT II 212 (cover): Antiphonale (2 half folia), square notation on red staves, 14th-15th century. Measures: 35<140| (175) x |260>35 (295). Contents: Advent (?) |
| | AAT II 379 (cover): Breviarium (1 folium), square notation on red staves, 15th-16th century. Contents: Sulpitius. From the same manuscript as AAT II 121 (fly leaf) and AAT II 180 (fly leaf) |
| | AAT II 428: Graduale (part of a leaf), square notation on red staves, 15th-16th century. Content: Advent-Christmas (part of gr. Tecum principium) |
| | AAT II 910 (cover): Antiphonale (half folium), square notation on red staves, 14th-15th eeuw. Measures: 39<193>45 (277) x 17<185| (202). Contents: Lent, Hebdomada IV in Quadragesima (ant. De quinque panibus, Saciavit dominus, etc.) Not mentioned by Vangool |
| | AAT II 921 (cover): Antiphonarium (1 bifolium), square notation on red staves, 14th-15th century. Contents: Lent (resp. Tolle arma tua, Videntes Ioseph a longe) |
| | AAT II 922 (binding): a small piece of a liturgical manuscript is visible, perhaps from the same manuscript as AAT II 921 (cover) or one of the others. Not mentioned by Vangool |
| | AAT V 327 (pieces on the front and the back covers): Antiphonarium, square notation on red staves, 15th-16th century. Not mentioned by Vangool |