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11th Century Carolingian Minuscule manuscript with St Gall neumes - Nocturnes of the Office of All saints - Bede
11th Century Carolingian Minuscule manuscript with St Gall neumes - Nocturnes of the Office of All saints - Bede
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11th Century Carolingian Minuscule manuscript with St Gall neumes and extracts from Bede
26 x 20cm approx, text of 33 lines in two columns (each of~8.5cm width) in a clear Carolingian minuscule hand.
Two Initials in red and blue
Readings, responsories and antiphons from the Nocturne I and II of the Office of All Saints
The left column starts with the First Nocturne for All Saints partway through Reading III: Bede's Homily LXXI "in eadem Solemnitate Omnum Sanctorum"
"[Per]petuum mirabiliter..."
Neumes then follow with Responses, Antiphones and Psalms with the start of Nocturne II highlighted in red "IN II NC"
The Blue A starts Reading 4 "LECT IIII": "Adhunc tamen aliquid" which is Bedes 44th Sermon on Augustinus.
This is followed by the Responses: "Inter natos mulierum"
The Red H starts Reading 5 "LECTIO V" (faded): "Hos sequitur electio" which is another extract from Bede.
For a similar (but later) fragment of text - please see:
https://ifc.dpz.es/recursos/publicaciones/30/73/043fragmento47.pdf
