This manuscript, copied in an unknown location during the first
half of the fourteenth century, provides a beautiful example of a
Cistercian antiphony with notes (only the Proprium de tempore is
preserved here): an elegant script with widely spaced lines
facilitates readability, the musical notes, in square notation, are
organized according to a four-line system, and the text is richly
decorated with fleuronné initials and droleries. Fragments from a
twelfth-century Bible are bound into the beginning of the
manuscript and are valuable witnesses for paleographical study of
the earliest manuscripts produced by the Cistercians of Hauterive.
Place
Preferred form
Hauterive Abbey (Switzerland) (?)
Original form
Hauterive (?)
Rights
e-codices - Virtual Manuscript Library of Switzerland
