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Metadata

DS ID:

DS30505

Shelfmark:

ege-21

Title:

Ege leaf 21: Hymnal, France, 1300s

Hymnal

Place:

France

France TGN

Date:

1300s

fourteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Material:

Vellum (parchment)

Parchment AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 1 leaf; Vellum (parchment); 16.5 cm x 11 cm

Former Owner(s):

Ege, Otto F.

Otto Ege WIKIDATA

Note:

Script: Gothic
Decoration: foliage (motif); gold leaf; illuminations (painting); initials (layout features); rubrics; rules (layout features); columns (layout features); musical notation
The following text is based on the original seller's label. 21. VELLUM LEAF FROM AN ILLUMINATED MEDIEVAL MANUSCRIPT
FRANCE
Early XIVth Century
Latin Text
Angular Gothic Script, Gregorian Notation
Hymnal
(Hymnarium)
FROM THE COLLECTION OF OTTO F. EGE.
At important festival services such as Christmas and Easter these small hymnals were generally used by the laymen as they walked in procession to the various altars
Much of the material incorporated in the hymnals was based on folk melodies
Hymns, like the other chants of the Church, varied according to their place in the liturgy
Their melodies are frequently distinguished by a refrain which was sung at the beginning and at the end of each stanza
The initial letter design of this leaf persisted with little or no change for a long period, but the simple pendant spear was used as a distinctive motif for not more than twenty-five years.
Fifty original leaves from medieval manuscripts, Western Europe, XII-XVI century

Keyword:

Hymnals

Manuscripts

Institutional Record:

http://media.library.ohio.edu/digital/collection/p15808coll19/id/87

IIIF Manifest:

https://media.library.ohio.edu/iiif/2/p15808coll19:87/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

Ohio University