Bibliotheca Arnamagnæana - 01.06.2003, Qupperneq 25

Liturgy of St Knud Lavard - Introduction
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and with only sporadic signs of wear and tear. The text is written in one
practised hånd throughout, and this hånd appears also to have supplied
the musical notation in art. 1 (see notes to lines 216-17, 591-92, and
650 in the edition; the hånd is more compactly executed in arts. 2-3 than
in art. 1). There are 20 lines to a full page of text but of course fewer
where the page includes music. The latter is written in square neumes
and normally on four-line staves, though staves of three lines occur on f.
lr-v (all except the first stave of f. lv) and f. 14v (the last stave of five).
These staves are drawn, and the liturgical rubrics written, in red ink; the
neumes and the body of the text are written in black.21 In art. 1 initials
mark the division of the text into liturgical units and sub-units. They are
coloured red and blue and regularly decorated with so-called palmetto
omamentation. Capital letters at the beginning of sentences in the longer
prose passages are touched in red; symbols connecting the syllables of
underlaid words in the chant are similarly written in red. Initials ren-
dered particularly prominent by their size and/or decoration occur at the
following places in art. 1 (as will be seen, there is no consistent scheme
for their use):
f. Ir Beginning of First Vespers of the feast of the Passion of St Knud
Lavard, edition line 7 Beatus
f. 2r Beginning of Magnificat antiphon at First Vespers of the Passion, line
28 Ave
f. 4v Beginning of first lesson at Matins of the Passion, line 87 Rex
f. lOr Beginning of fourth respond at Matins of the Passion, line 205 Jam
f. lOv Beginning of second noctum at Matins of the Passion, line 212 Domine
f. 12v Beginning of fifth respond at Matins of the Passion, line 261.1 nstat
f. 16v Beginning of eighth lesson at Matins of the Passion, line 343 Ad
f. 18v Beginning of Gospel quotation introducing the ninth lesson at Matins
of the Passion, line 402 Jn
f. 20r Beginning of tenth lesson at Matins of the Passion, line 430 Attendens
f. 23v Beginning of last respond at Matins of the Passion, line 516 Decus
f. 25r Beginning of Gospel at Matins of the Passion, line 532 Jn
f. 29v Beginning of respond at Second Vespers of the Passion, line 642 Mar-
tyr
f. 3 lr Beginning of First Vespers of the Translation, line 669 Ave
f. 32r Beginning of first lesson at Matins of the Translation, line 702 Deo
21 There is no foundation for Kroman’s statement that the text block on each page is en-
closed in “Rammestreger” (i.e. pre-ruled frames; cf. CSRD xm).