Close-up image of a section of notated music and text from MS 24. Isolated in the image are the text which appears under the corresponding neumes, and two types of neumes: the porrectus flexus and the torculus.
Close-up image of a section of notated music and text from MS 24. Isolated in the image are the Do Clef (C Clef), three types of neumes: the punctum, the podatus, and the clivus.
This exemplar was created for the use of Humbert of Romans, the Master General of the Dominican Order responsible for much of the unification of the Dominican liturgy. It was copied, along with two other surviving exempla, at the Convent of Saint…
Description from the British Library: LIBER Prosarum, for the use of the Dominican nunnery of Poissy: a collection of fifty-six proses with musical notation, preceded by some responsoria and, at f. 7 b., the office "ad noviciam recipiendam." A leaf…
Dominican Proser from the late 13th century-early 14th century with 14th century additions. Origin unclear - possibly from Calais, France or from England.