F001 / PSALTERIUM s. 14, 1 incomplete leaf and 2 small strips, Budapest, Library and Information Centre of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Department of Manuscripts and Rare Books, T 255

Basic Data

Numerus
F001
Genre
Psalterium
Date
s. 14
Archives / Library / Collection
Budapest, Library and Information Centre of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Department of Manuscripts and Rare Books
Shelfmark
T 255
Material
parchment
Extent
1 incomplete leaf with two small strips, detached
Page height
fol.: 357 mm, strip 1 (with notation): 63 mm, strip 2 without notation: 61 mm
Page width
fol.: 237 mm, strip 1 (with notation): 32 mm, strip 2 (without notation): 33 mm
Written height
300 mm
Written width
208 mm (incomplete)
Number of columns
2
Number of lines
38 text lines (recto/left column); 30 text lines with 4 lines with notation (verso/right column)
Width of columns
107 mm
Stave height
7-8 mm
Script
gothica textualis
Musical notation
Messine-German-Bohemian Gothic notation
Musical notation/remarks
4-line staves with lines traced in red, C-clef, no custos
Content
feria 3 per annum
Origin
Bohemian (?)
Bibliography/References
Szendrei Janka, A magyar középkor hangjegyes forrásai [Notated sources of the Hungarian Middle Ages], HAS, Institute for Musicology, Budapest, 1981, F 1

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Analytical Description

The order of the first three antiphons (Amplius lava me, Salutare vultus, Sitivit in te) of the Wednesday Lauds vary from the composition of the majority of Hungarian diocesan sources (Secundum magnam misericordiam, Salutare vultus, Ad te de luce), and corresponds to the Czech sources. See CAO-ECE III/A Praha Temporale (Budapest: HAS, Institute for Musicology, 1996), 167.

The text and the melody of the antiphon Sitivit in te differs from the version of the majority of Western sources: while in these we can find the text Sitivit in te anima mea Deus meus (its shorter version ends here, the longer version continues, see in the Monumenta Monodica Medii Aevi V. Antiphonen, 8062, online version: http://antifona.zti.hu/), the antiphon’s text on the fragment is much shorter [Sitivit in te (assumedly anima mea, although there is a very little place) Domine]. This text is present in the Breviarium notatum sign. XIV A 19 of the National Library of the Czech Republic (Národní knihovna České republiky) in Prague (f. 57v, see Fontes Cantus Bohemiae: http://cantusbohemiae.cz/source/4478). The melody of this source, however, does not agree with the melody on the fragment: the Czech source gives a simple recitative 2nd mode melody moving in the f-d range, the fragment, on the contrary, gives a 1st mode melody descending from a to d: the same melody that in the Western sources (Germany, Rhineland) comes with the s… Deus meus text variant. That is, in its text, it strengthens the Czech relation, but its melody contradicts  this. (See Zsuzsa Czagány: A középkori prágai offícium liturgiai és zenei vizsgálata [Research into liturgy and music of the medieval Prague Office], PhDiss, Budapest, Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music 2002, 105–106.) It is worth looking further into this hitherto unique text-melody combination.

Zsuzsa Czagány

Content

RISM Folio Tempus Dies Hora Genre Incipit Mode Cantus ID Mel. Num.
H-Ba T 255 recto Tempus per annum Feria 3 per annum N ps. 49 Deus deorum Dominus*
H-Ba T 255 recto Tempus per annum Feria 3 per annum N ps. 50 Miserere mei Deus*
H-Ba T 255 recto Tempus per annum Feria 3 per annum N ps. 51 Quid gloriaris in malitia*
H-Ba T 255 verso Tempus per annum Feria 3 per annum N ps. 51 Quid gloriaris in malitia*
H-Ba T 255 verso Tempus per annum Feria 3 per annum N a6 Deus deorum Dominus* 8 002168 Ant-8143
H-Ba T 255 verso Tempus per annum Feria 3 per annum N W Immola Deo 008091
H-Ba T 255 verso Tempus per annum Feria 3 per annum L a1 Amplius lava me Domine ab iniustitia* 8 (?) 001390 Ant-8009
H-Ba T 255 verso Tempus per annum Feria 3 per annum L a2 Salutare vultus mei* 6 004683 Ant-6015
H-Ba T 255 verso Tempus per annum Feria 3 per annum L a3 Sitivit in te* 1 004973
H-Ba T 255 verso Tempus per annum Feria 3 per annum L a4 Cunctis diebus* 3 002079 Ant-3057
H-Ba T 255 verso Tempus per annum Feria 3 per annum L a5 Omnes angeli eius 5 004116 Ant-5004
H-Ba T 255 verso Tempus per annum Feria 3 per annum L W Repleti sumus 008181
H-Ba T 255 verso Tempus per annum Feria 3 per annum L Ab Erexit nobis Dominus 7 002664 Ant-7175