A Leaf with Latin Liturgical Chants at the DRAGEN Lab
April 7, 2025 in CANTUS Database, DRAGEN Lab, Manuscript Studies, Reports, University of Waterloo
Manuscript Fragments
at the DRAGEN Lab
Part 2:
Leaf of Latin Liturgical Chants
[Posted on 7 April 2025]
Waterloo, University of Waterloo, DRAGEN Lab, Vellum Leaf with music and notation for liturgical chants: Verso: Bottom.
To accompany preparations for the 2025 RGME Autumn Colloquium at the University of Waterloo in November, we explore some manuscript and printed treasures at the University’s Medieval DRAGEN Lab (Digital Research Arts for Graphic and Environmental Networks). We thank the staff of the DRAGEN Lab and its director, Steven Bednarski, for permission to examine these materials and share the findings with you.
For information about the Colloquium and registration for it, please visit
[Update: See the revised information for the Colloquium, which will take place at Princeton instead, without support from UWaterloo:
Fragments
In a series, first we examine leaves from two different medieval manuscripts in Latin. Part 1 in this series exhibited a leaf for the month of February in an unknown Book of Hours. See
- A Latin Kalendar Leaf for February from Northern France at the DRAGEN Lab.
Now in Part 2 we consider a leaf with musical chants from a liturgical book so far unknown.
Standing on its own, without identifying inscriptions or other marks to indicate its origin, date and place of production, early and subsequent ownership, or other features of its transmission, the leaf must or can speak for itself.