multiple impression

Textura, Uncial

red initials, red staff lines, red text

The pages are framed with double margins to the left and right, in which the clefs and custodes are printed, and a single margin at the bottom.

Hufnagel notation

Measurements:

full-length staff: a. 124 x 17 mm (a1r); height of virga 8 mm.

chant

Chants for Candlemas, Palm Sunday, Good Friday, Holy Saturday vigil, vigil of Pentecost.
The litany appears twice. The first litany (f. d8) follows the seven penitential psalms in the Visitation of the Sick and includes such saints as Alban, Christopher, Oswald, George, Nicolas, Ludwig, Conrad, Gall, Udalricus, Othmar, Katerina, Otilia, Afra, and Ursula cum sodalibus tuis. The second litany, for processions (ff. 2c3-2c6v), adds Timothy, Eustacius cum sociis, Linos, Cletus, Clemens, Sixtus, Erasmus, Erhard, Policarp, Fridoline, Wolfgang, Henry, Egidius. Kunnegundis, Perpetua, Tecla, Margareta, and Juliana and omits Othmar, Conrad, Gall, Ludwig, Thathee, and Verena. The service for Baptism (f. b1-b2v) includes vernacular (German) text.

Music is only present in the second part of the book, which is separated from the previous part by a blank leaf.

Copies:

*CH-SGs, *GB-Lbl

Secondary literature:

Duggan, Mary Kay. Printing and Reform. The Beginning of Music Printing in German-speaking Lands in the Fifteenth Century. (under review)