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
they look so HAPPY
October 31, 2025 at 9:23 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
unfortunately this fragment gives no music, but the chants for Maximin of Trier can also be found in a manuscript from Arras--now in Vercelli, Italy. (Some #chant travels almost as much as St Simeon, apparently.)
happy #fragmentfriday!
September 26, 2025 at 8:24 PM
anyway he ended up with a big following in Trier, thanks in part to being friends with Trier's bishop Poppo (real name).
This fragment also gives us some chant texts about St Maximin, likewise a Trier local, who is here credited for his success in subduing both Arians and bears.
September 26, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Symeon was born in Syracuse (ca.990?), educated in Constantinople, and spent a time being a tour guide, monk and/or hermit in various places before being sent to France on business, getting shipwrecked, falling in with some pilgrims, and finally being a recluse in Trier's Roman gate.
September 26, 2025 at 8:24 PM
but there are also additions on one side! and although they aren't pretty, they are the giveaway that the chants are probably from the Trier area, since they are for several Trier-specific saints. Here's Saint Simeon, for example...
September 26, 2025 at 8:24 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
presumably one scribe didn't bother to add music over these words and then the person in charge of the red ink decided to do it anyway, but it looks special anyway
August 29, 2025 at 7:19 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
i'm thinking this is a version of the melody for "het viel op sint petrus nacht", which we have (with different words) in a source in Brussels.
August 8, 2025 at 10:46 PM
spot the feast, vernacular song edition: looks like "sint petrus nacht" (St Peter's night, presumably June 28) shows up here. (Rest of the text seems to be absent, so who knows what happened that June evening!)
August 8, 2025 at 10:29 PM
and in another part of the binding is a little Dutch song! the blue here is an offset from the chant pages fragmentarium.ms/view/page/F-...
August 8, 2025 at 10:29 PM
the particular combination of chants used seems to be related to its geography: a very similar set of chants can be found in antiphoners from Tongeren, about 30km east of Zoutleeuw.
August 8, 2025 at 10:29 PM
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