Leuven: Abdij Keizersberg (B-LVak)

Manuscripts

No liturgical manuscripts from the Low Countries.

Fragments

There are a some manuscript fragments.

There are two fragments, belonging together and forming a more or less complete folium of an antiphoner for monastic use, dating from the 12th century and containing chants for Exaltatio Crucis, a Salve regina, and Mathew (or Commons for an evangelist?) in Low Countries staff notation on dry lines (the Salve regina has only the incipit notated by the original scribe; the larger part is from a 2nd scribe). For a facs see TKVNM 53, p. 33.
Recto: [versicle Mihi autem ?? ...] domini nostri ihesu xpisti, ant. in ev. Super omnia ligna, ant. in ev. O crux splendidior, [ant.] Salve regina, [ant.] Ecce ego iohannes (initial in a paint that has damaged the parchment), resp. Similit[udo], [inv. ant.] Regem ewangelistarum. In pri[mo noct.]
Verso: [ant. Convocatis ...] misit illos predicare regnum dei egressi autem, ant. Mittens domi[nus] et alios, ant. Ihesu xpisti domini gracia credentibus, ant. Sapientia domini ewangelii, [ant. La]bia eorum salutarem, ant. Elegit eos ex omni, resp. [In vi]sione dei vidi et ecce with verse De medio autem, resp. Quatuor facies with verse Sub pennis ... in qua; then the page ends.

There are two stripes of a missal, 11th century or ca 1100, page layout in two columns, with staffless Low Countries neumes, showing graduale Benedicam dominum in omni tempore.

There are also several fragments of 14th-15th-century Mass and Office fragments, mostly written in square notation on red staves. One of them has the hymn Apostolorum [...] post triduum tamen sensus sacratos pandere spondet and a responsory with the words funera saltationis.


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