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Waterloo, University of Waterloo, DRAGEN Lab, Vellum Leaf with music and notation for liturgical chants: Verso: Bottom.<\/p><\/div>\n
To accompany preparations for the 2025 RGME Autumn Colloquium at the University of Waterloo<\/a> in November, we explore some manuscript and printed treasures at the University’s Medieval DRAGEN Lab<\/a> (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.<\/p>\n For information about the Colloquium and registration for it, please visit<\/p>\n [Update<\/em>: See the revised information for the Colloquium, which will take place at Princeton instead, without support from UWaterloo:<\/p>\n 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<\/p>\n Now in Part 2 we consider a leaf with musical chants from a liturgical book so far unknown.<\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n On the recto, the chants open with Scitis quia post buduum Pascha fiet<\/em>, from the text of Matthew 26:2. The enlarged initial for this text is written in black ink like the text; other enlarged initials for other chants are in red.<\/p>\n The verso finishes mid-word at the beginning of a chant, Si<\/em>[. . . ]tio Con<\/em>-.<\/p>\n The first chant corresponds with an item in the Cantus Database<\/a>, for which only one other source is cited, also preserved in Ontario albeit in a different university’s collection.<\/p>\n = St. Catharines (ON), Brock University Library – Archives and Special Collections, RG 394 (fragment).<\/p>\n Waterloo, University of Waterloo, DRAGEN Lab, Saint Jerome’s University, Latin Manuscript Fragment with Chants, Recto.<\/p><\/div>\n Quid molesti estis huic mulieri?\u00a0 Opus enim bonum operata est in me.<\/p>\n Nam semper pauperes habebitis vobiscum me autem non semper<\/p>\n \/ [om. habetis in page-turn?] (Matthew 26:10\u201311)<\/p>\n [VARIANT? of Cantus<\/p>\n quid molesti estis huic mulieri bonum opus operata est in me ]<\/p>\n OR<\/em><\/p>\n Bonum opus operata est in me<\/em><\/p>\n nam semper pauperes habebitis vobiscum me autem non semper habebitis<\/p>\n\n
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II. Leaf with Liturgical Chants<\/h1>\n
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The Text:<\/h3>\n
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