DACT Fragments
DACT Fragments
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looking through some chants in this leaf of the Beauvais missal @casewestern.bsky.social and it seems so excited about SabBATO (saturday) #fragmentfriday fragmentarium.ms/view/page/F-...
November 28, 2025 at 8:12 PM
happy #fragmentfriday feast of st willibrord from this noted breviary from Frauenfeld! fragmentarium.ms/view/page/F-...
November 7, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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This is the feast–in all the churches!–of Willibrord, Apostle to the Frisians, d. 739. 🕯️ First up: the Calendar of Willibrord, BNF lat 10837, an early-8c manuscript written on the Continent, probably at Echternach, mainly in Insular majuscule. #medievalsky 🧵

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November 7, 2025 at 2:39 PM
liturgical books bound in liturgical books but TEENY TINY
Spilled my coffee travel mug in my backpack this morning - can you imagine the horror - so let’s just say some time with these wonderful #earlymodern miniature books was very much needed!

1) Gregorian Calendar (1585)

#rarebooks #bookhistory 💙📚📜

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October 31, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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Spilled my coffee travel mug in my backpack this morning - can you imagine the horror - so let’s just say some time with these wonderful #earlymodern miniature books was very much needed!

1) Gregorian Calendar (1585)

#rarebooks #bookhistory 💙📚📜

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October 31, 2025 at 12:07 PM
spooky skeleton chant fragment #fragmentfriday fragmentarium.ms/view/page/F-...
October 31, 2025 at 9:23 PM
around 1592 somebody used an antiphoner to be a cover for their college textbook. it really must have been a pretty big antiphoner, so one wonders how many other texts it was used for... #fragmentfriday fragmentarium.ms/view/page/F-...
October 17, 2025 at 3:34 PM
happy feast day of st gereon, martyr at Cologne, from this fragment in Antwerp #fragmentfriday fragmentarium.ms/view/page/F-...
October 10, 2025 at 4:47 PM
a happy feast of ewald and ewald this #fragmentfriday from this saint calendar, possibly from the diocese of Trier, now in Paris. bonus: weird little scorpion, fun marbled pillars fragmentarium.ms/view/page/F-...
October 3, 2025 at 6:41 PM
this fragment from Trier has some fun and colourful initials for pentecost #fragmentfriday fragmentarium.ms/view/page/F-...
September 26, 2025 at 8:24 PM
happy belated feast of Hildegard (Sept.17)! celebrate with this lovely fragment from the binding of the Riesencodex (the greenish circle is from the bosses on the cover) #fragmentfriday fragmentarium.ms/overview/F-y...
September 19, 2025 at 5:03 PM
normally dragons are more of a thing for Michaelmas (Sept 30) but this manuscript decided to have a holy cross (sept 15) dragon too. dragon-tember. #fragmentfriday
September 12, 2025 at 4:45 PM
something fun about this fragment is that the text combines parts of two different chants, but the melody is continuous across them like it was supposed to be that way all along. chant remix! #FragmentFriday
September 5, 2025 at 9:05 PM
today is the feast of the beheading of john the baptist, which in this fragment has red neumes for the invitatory #chant fragmentarium.ms/view/page/F-...
August 29, 2025 at 7:19 PM
this fragment may have its battle scars, buts it's very practical: many simple formulae to be used for saints' feasts in Paschaltide, written out on uneven staff-lines (probably in the back of some other book.) #fragmentfriday fragmentarium.ms/view/page/F-...
August 23, 2025 at 1:54 AM
this #fragmentfriday item has TWO fun bits of music on it! let's take a look at this binding for the accounts of St Leonard, Zoutleeuw, 1443-1469. On the one hand, some #chant for the fifth Sunday of Lent and two preceding days. fragmentarium.ms/view/page/F-...
August 8, 2025 at 10:29 PM
this #fragmentfriday is the feast of St. Peter's Chains! it's what links these four fragments together.
August 1, 2025 at 11:58 PM
some lovely German chant notation in this noted missal now in Toronto but originally from Würzburg (aka Herbipolis aka Plant City) #fragmentfriday fragmentarium.ms/view/page/F-...
July 25, 2025 at 7:19 PM
the thing with cuttings is it's not always easy to tell what letter something is supposed to be. this one is labelled a "C", for example, but it kind of has a crossbar like an E. or a weird theta thing. fragmentarium.ms/view/page/F-...
July 18, 2025 at 4:08 PM
July 11, 2025 at 5:47 PM
chant for when you want to hide in the cover of a book #fragmentfriday fragmentarium.ms/view/page/F-...
June 27, 2025 at 7:17 PM
i'm just saying if *I* worked in a bindery in 1499 I would bind my mass commentaries with graduals and not antiphoners. more thematically appropriate, is all. #fragmentfriday fragmentarium.ms/view/page/F-...
June 20, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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#FragmentOfTheDay: Another Frauenfeld find. Wrapping Josse Clichtove's 1523 chart-topper Opusculum on War and Peace, this Passion is sure to please your friends who dig early #mensuralNotation and #polyphony. Late, early, or just on time, it's guaranteed to please. fragmentarium.ms/overview/F-6...
June 20, 2025 at 2:44 PM
wanted: the S taken out of this Pentecost #chant. may or may not have cute little animals (see bottom of page) #fragmentfriday fragmentarium.ms/view/page/F-...
June 6, 2025 at 7:11 PM