4folios. 13.5-15x23.5-24.5 cm. 1 column, 14 (ff. 1-2) and 15 (ff.3-4) lines. The green colour of large initials has eaten holes into the parchment.
12th c2* - 13th é". Large initials: 1) dark red, 2) green, and 3) dark blue. The Pentecostal resp. Dum complerentur begins with a red large initial ornamented with red and green vegetal-shaped scrolls. Brown small initials. E caudata appears in the script (protogothic minuscule), but not regularly. Ff. 2-4 were possibly written by another scribe from f. 1. Early quadratic notation on a brown four-line staff (8-10 mm). Clefs: b quadratum, b rotundum and d. Some liquescent signs, e.g. torculus liquescens. Photograph off. V on p. 11. In letters (18th of June 2000, 18th of August) to the present writer K.D. Hartzell suggests that this manuscript was produced during the first quarter of the 12th century, possibly at Canterbury.
ANTIPHONARIUM, secular.
F. 1 [Johannis evangehstae] beginning autem quid cut of the resp. at matins, [Sic eum volo] VHunc ergo, and ending discipulus of the resp. Hie est beatissimus VHic. «" The only nocturn present gives four great responsories, the third of them being rare, Johannes hie theologus V Gloria iir.The ant. Expandens manus is an unusual variant, as it were a mixing of Hesbert 1968 Nos. 2795 and 2796.The text of the great responsory In medio ecclesie is added at the bottom off. 1". F. 2 [In epiphania Domini] beginning de celo prospexit, the closing words of the 3rd ant. of the II noct. (unidentified), and ending patema uox au[dita] of the 4th resp. of the III noct., In columbe specie. ¦*" For the III noct. four great responsories are given.
F. 3 [In ascensione Domini] beginning nomen tuum of the ant. ad Magnificat at I vespers, [Pater manifestavi], and ending parauit of the 3rd ant. of the III noct., Dominus in celo. F. 4 [Feria iij post dominicam infra octavam ascensionis] beginning meum seruabit of the ant. [Si quis diligit]. «* Ant. Qui autem diligit. The fragment gives a short version of the ant. Veni sancte spiritus, ending ignem accende alleluia, cf. Hesbert 1968 No. 5327; Feria uij; Sabbato. »Ant. Vespere autem facto, Hesbert 1968 No. 5370. Ant. Spiritus sanctus procedens, cf. Hesbert 1968 No. 5007; [In die pentecostes] ending dicentes alleluia of the resp. Dum complerentur.
F. 2" 4616 (or 4620) Small handwriting, quite different from the usual types:"[...] vdij Corsholm anno etc 60". F. 3'4538 "Her Niels Regenskap I Sala proest I Ostrabotnen Pro anno 49".The parson of Sal o (viz. Saloinen) in the second quarter of the 16th c, Leinberg 1895 pp. 143-144.
Lit.: Taitto 1993 (a) p. 350 (colour reproduction off. 1").
DATE: Saec. xii 1/4 suggested (Taitto); saec. xii med. (Niskanen 2010). LITURGICAL USE: Secular, indeterminate. ORIGIN: Canterbury suggested (Taitto); probably England or English influence (Niskanen 2010).