Description | Leaf from a hymnal, parchment. Text in a Gothic bookhand in two columns interspersed with musical notation in a German Gothic "hufnagel" style on a 4-line stave with C marked. Main body text in black ink with red capitals and rubrics. Column A on the recto begins with hymns for St Gereon and St Victor, probably intended for Matins on their feast day (10 October). Column B has the hymn "Jesu salvator seculi", for the feast of All Saints (1 November), and "Fratres unanimes federe" for the feast of St Martin (11 November). Column A on the verso continues with the feast of St Martin and has the beginning of the hymn "Exultet aula celica" for the feast of St Nicholas (6 December). This continues into column B, which ends with the first lines of the hymn "Exultet celum laudibus" for the Communion of Apostles. |