This manuscript probably was written at the behest of St. Gall
Abbot Ulrich Rösch (1463-1491). The manuscript’s principal part
consists of a Psalter with the Psalms in biblical order, as well as
several liturgical rubrics, antiphons (partly only with the
Initium), and hymns, followed by the Pater noster, the Credo,
biblical Cantica, the Te Deum, a litany und more Cantica. The final
part, from fol. 135v, consists of a hymnal, which also contains a
Sequence (Cantemus cuncti melodum). Antiphons and hymns have
melodies in German plainsong notation("Hufnagelnotation") on 4 or 5
lines. Numerous erasures and additions, as well as other signs of
usage, attest to intensive use of the manuscript. Several pages
have book decorations in the form of initials with vine scrolls; a
figure initial can be found on fol. 1v (a man fighting a dragon and
a bird of prey).
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