FRAGMENT OF A LATIN MANUSCRIPT FROM THE ANDREY RUBLEV MUSEUM IN MOSCOW

DOI: 10.36871/hon.202004009

Authors

Yu. V. Moskva
Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory, Moscow, Russian Federation

Abstract

The article is dedicated to the new exhibit of the Andrey Rublev Museum in Moscow — a fragment of a Latin singing manuscript. Based on paleographic analysis and analysis of the manuscript content, comparing it with the repertoire of the oldest manuscripts and the Tridentine Breviary, the author confidently defines the type of manuscript and, with great care, its age and place of origin. Contents — chants of Matins for the feast of St. Paul the Apostle point to an antiphonarium, and the foliation suggests that the codex was a separate volume-sanctorale. The Romanesque origin of the document is evidenced by the square linear musical notation and the Rotunda text type. The singing repertoire of this fragment reveals closeness to a famous XIth century manuscript from Ivrea (Northern Italy), which makes it possible to specify the localization of this source. Musical notation and traces of a later singing repertoire (responsory to the text of St. Bernard of Clairvaux) determine the lower boundary of the manuscript's age — not earlier than the end of the XIIth century, and the differences from the Tridentine Breviary — the upper one: not later than the beginning of the XVIth century. True, the Rotunda font testifies rather to the XIIIth – XIVth century. In the future, a comparative analysis with a large number of reliable sources is required.

Keywords

antiphonarium, square notation, Rotunda, parchment, Matins, antiphon, responsory, St. Paul the Apostle, Bernard of Clairvaux