This manuscript collection compiled in the late 15th and early 16th Century consists of several parts and was mainly written in the late 14th and 15th Centuries (with addenda of the 16th century) in the diocese of Linköping or in the Brigitte convent at Vadstena, which employed the same usage. It contains rhymed offices, antiphons, lessons, prayers, legends and sequences. The oldest part (written around 1400) forms the leaves 1-66 (fascicle 1-6). The polyphonic piece was probably a part of the office of the Compassion of the Blessed Virgin Mary, is in the 7th fascicle and dates from the 15th Century.

parchment leaf with leather cover.

square notation

Modern foliation of f. 1-201.

paper

RISM BIV/4: 14./16. Jh.; 201 Blätter Papier, 225 x 160 mm. Moderne Foliierung von f. 1-201. Je Seite 8-10 Vierliniensysteme mit Quadratnotation - Einband: Pergament-Bogen mit Lederumschlag.

Diese aus mehreren Teilen im späten 15. und frühen 16. Jh. zusammengefügte Sammelhandschrift wurde größtenteils im ausgehenden 14. und 15. Jh. (mit Nachträgen des 16. Jh.) im Bistum Linköping oder im Brigittenkloster Vadstena geschrieben, wo sie auch Verwendung gefunden hat. Sie enthält Reimoffizien, Antiphonen, Lektionen, Orationen, Legenden und Sequenzen. Den ältesten Teil (um 1400 geschrieben) bilden die Blätter 1-66 (Faszikels 1-6). Das vermutlich mehrstimmiges Stück, das im Officium de compassione BMV erscheint, steht im 7. Faszikel und stammt aus dem 15. Jh.

[Translation] 14th-16th Centuries; 201 sheets of paper, 225 x 160 mm. Modern foliation of f. 1-201. Each page contains 8-10 four-line staves with square notation. Binding: parchment leaf with leather cover.

This manuscript collection compiled in the late 15th and early 16th Century consists of several parts and was mainly written in the late 14th and 15th Centuries (with addenda of the 16th century) in the diocese of Linköping or in the Brigitte convent at Vadstena, which employed the same usage. It contains rhymed offices, antiphons, lessons, prayers, legends and sequences. The oldest part (written around 1400) forms the leaves 1-66 (fascicle 1-6). The polyphonic piece was probably a part of the office of the Compassion of the Blessed Virgin Mary, is in the 7th fascicle and dates from the 15th Century.]

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