Early music in diastematic neumes [Italy, early 12th century]

bifolium, c.260x345mm, vellum, blind-ruled to guide the text and the mid-height of the neumes, cropped on all four sides, with loss of some text and music, one page very darkened, with creases, holes, and other damage due to re-use as a book-cover

ALTHOUGH WORN AND DAMAGED, THIS IS A SUBSTANTIAL FRAGMENT OF EARLY MUSIC

The chant consists of Psalms, antiphons, and responses for Pentecost and Ascension. Large spaces have been left for the initial ‘D’ of Dum complerentur dies, and the ‘P’ of Post passionem; despite the fact that the manuscript was never completed, it does seem to have been used, as a second scribe has made a textual correction.