The fragments assembled in this collection were removed from their
previous volumes by P. Gall Morel in 1858 and bound together into
this volume in 1860. They consist of fragments from sequences (two
volumes), hymn melodies (such as those still sung to this day in
Einsiedeln), three Gloria melodies (the third of which is
attributed to Pope Leo IX), three liturgical plays as well as the
Novem modi by Hermannus. This manuscript is important to music
history, as it is the first instance in Einsiedeln where the neumes
are set upon four (incised) staff lines; the form used here
represents the Alemannic choral dialect.
