Sint Aegten: membra disjecta

The Sint Aegten foundation near Cuyk preserves some fragments.

Fragment from St.-Agatha

* Fragment entitled Folio van een Missale met neumenschrift, 11e-12e eeuw. No signature; from Sint Agathaklooster; measures: ca 28 x 20 cm. Leaf of a noted Missale; contents: Lent. Probably first half 12th century. Staffless Low Countries neumes. The accompanying note refers to a correspondence in connection with an exhibition in Madrid, 1954

Fragments from Uden

* Uden I: Double leaf of a noted Missale; measures of one (trimmed) leaf: 22 x 17 cm; 1 col.; 10th or 11th century. Staffless Low Countries neumes. Chants with notation: first leaf: off. Confitebor tibi domine, comm. Hoc corpus quod pro vobis, intr. Miserere michi domine, tr. Deus exaudi (?), off. Super flumina, comm. Memento verbi (?) tui, intr. (?), grad. Pacifice loquebantur. Second leaf: intr. Iudica me deus (NB: deus meus, an s in the neumes?), off. (?) Eripe me domine, tr. Sepe expugnaverunt, off. Benedictus es domine doce me ... non tradas, comm. Ne tradideris. No verses to the offertoria. Text and neumes in the same ink; the spacing of the text shows that the neumes were planned from the start.
* Uden II: 2 folia from a noted Missale, 29,5 x 20 cm; 2 cols.; contents: Epiphany and following sundays, incl. seq. Festa xristi omnis xristianitas. Staffless Low Countries neumes; 12th century; the accompanying note says: 'Rijnstreek, niet Utrechts', without a clear reason
* Uden III: leaf of a 13th (?) century Psalterium. Measures: ca 34 x 26 cm, 2 cols.; contents: psalms and antiphons for the ferial office. Low Countries Hufnagelschrift on 4 ink lines (no red or yellow lines)
* Uden IV: Some fragments of a 16th century antiphonarium. Square notation on red 5 line staves, one marginal note with Hufnagelschrift. Contents: Michael, Katherina, Virgins; part of the Katherina-prosula Eterne virgo: [...] Et cantas proprie carmen leticie - Chorus [responds with melism] Te laudantes in terra respice - Chorus etc. Decoration is similar to fragment LO 19 of the Abdij van Berne.
* Uden V: Leaf of a noted Breviarium; probably ca 1300 or 14th century. Contents: Advent. Low Countries Hufnagelschrift on 4 ink lines
* Uden VI: 2 leaves of a noted missale, probably 14th century; measures: ca 31 x 20 cm (trimmed); 2 cols.; contents: Advent. Notation: a type of Lorraine notation on red staves.
* Uden VII: 2 leaves of a noted Breviarium (secular cursus), 12th century, ca 33 x 23 cm (trimmed), 2 cols.; contents: Martinus (octave) and Cecilia (in the margines: Columbanus, Elizabeth). Hufnagelschrift (Utrecht style) on 4 ink lines
* Uden VIII: Kyriale-fragment, ca 27 x 8 cm, 14th or 15th century
* Uden IX: 3 fragments of folia of an Antiphonarium; 15th or 16th century; Contents: Andreas, Epiphany. Square notation on red staves. According to an accompanying note more fragments of this manuscript are preserved.
* Uden X: Antiphonarium fragment, 15th or 16th century, 27 x 17 cm; 1 col.; contents: Holy Week (perhaps Maundy Thursday). Square notation on red staves

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