they look so HAPPY

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!

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.

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.

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...

it feels like a bookmark, with that tab, but why the L shape? Maybe so the other part stays put in the spine side of the page?
incidentally we seem to be looking at a fairly well known sequence for Nicholas on one side and one or two for Barbara that are harder to identify on the other side...

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

late to the party, but the other chant on that page is the end of Alleluia Judicabunt sancti nationes (also often used for commons of saints).

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.

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!)