Manuscript fragment on parchment of an antiphonary containing among other items: First Sunday of Advent; Christmas; Christmas Eve; St. Stephen (26 December); St. Silvester (31 December); St. Agnes (21 January); Conversion of Saint Paul (25 January); and Purification of the Virgin (2 February).
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in late Caroline minuscule by several scribes., Decoration: 7-line responsory initial "D" is a red uncial with red and black penwork and a portrait of St. Agnes; 4-line responsory initial "A" in red with vine-stem decoration; 1-line initials of "O" antiphons are in red capitals; other 1-line initials are brown rustic capitals; rubrics in red minuscule., and It is possible that not all these leaves come from the same manuscript. They were written by several scribes, and the written space varies.
Manuscript fragment on parchment of an antiphonary written by the 12th- and 13th-century Lambach-based scribe Gottschalk. Among other items it contains: Epiphany (6 January); St. Agatha (5 February); St. Scholastica (10 February); Chair of St. Peter (22 February); St. Gregory (12 March); Annunciation (25 March); Maundy Thursday, compline; Good Friday; Easter; Exaltation of the Cross (14 September); St. Thomas (21 December); and St. Andrew (30 November).
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in late Caroline minuscule by Gottschalk, a scribe at Lambach in the twelfth and early thirteenth century., and Decoration: the responsorial liturgy of most feasts begins with a 3- to 5-line initial in red with red vine-stem decoration and violet bands and foliage drawn by Gottschalk; three historiated initials of a trumpeter, Prophet Isaiah, and Gregory the great; 1-line red capitals are present in many antiphons as are 1-line initials of responses in thick brown uncials traced or dotted with red; rubrics written in red rustic capitals; punctuated with the punctus; interlinear neumes in the St. Gall style; tonary letters are written in the outer margin of each folio drawn on tiers of a column representing architectural support.