Turku, The Museum Centre of Turku Archives, uncatalogued choral book fragment C Cataloguer Jesse Keskiaho Finnish Literature Society (SKS) Codices Fennici Creative Commons BY 4.0 Turku The Museum Centre of Turku Archives uncatalogued choral book fragment C Saec. XV2, diocese of Turku (Naantali?) Antiphonary, fragment

Fols. 1–2, proprium de sanctis, the feasts of St Henry and Mariae purificatio.

[1r] nanctum corona triumphantium ... henrici ... gaudet cetus fidelium. | O admirabile commercium creator ... nobis suam deitatem. Psalmus. Laudat p| ... Secreta. Gaude maria. Postcommunio. Gloria. Dicatur immediate| ... molata. Ad uesperas uersus. Responsium accepit symeon ... uidet christum dominum. Ad m[atutinas] ... puerum ihesum parentes e n| [1v] |ae. Ad completorium antiphona. Sancta dei genetrix uirgo ... Antiphona. Sicut mirra electa odorem redisti [2r] ... Versus. Sancta dei genetrix ... Adorna thalamum tuum syon ... ut sisterent eum domino [2v] |cabitur. Versus. Obtulerunt pro eo ... In secundo nocturno antiphona. Emissiones tue paradisus ... Antiphona. Fons ortorum.

 Parchment 2 folios. 33,5 38 23 29 Original foliation not extant, the recto-side of fol. 2 has been marked in pencil in the right-hand margin. Mutilated, with the top and the outer edges of the bifolium trimmed. Text and notes in one column, ruled in ink.

Gothic bookhand by one scribe; square notation on four red lines. The scribe has been recognized as one (Scribe A) of those collaborating in the so-called Naantali-group of manuscripts (see Keskiaho 2008, 326, 340). It was therefore possibly copied at the Birgittine monastery of Naantali.

Lombards alternating in red and blue for the beginnings of feasts, hand-drawn initials for the beginnings of chants, touched in red and decorated with black and red diamond shapes; rubrics in red.

Some of the sewing holes are still visible. They match those found in Helsinki, National Library, F.m. II.157 (where this bifolium possibly belongs between fols. 2 and 3).

The bifolium was part of an antiphonary possibly copied at the monastery of Naantali. Other leaves presumably from this same book are preserved in Helsinki, National Library, F.m. II.157, as well as several leaves conserved in the Swedish National Archives. The present bifolium seems to have been used to bind an account book in 1661, probably the accounts of the municipality of Turku.

The fragment was used as cover wrappers for an accout in 1661; fol. 2r: ’Räckenskaper för Åhr 1661’.

 Jesse Keskiaho, ‘En grupp handskrifter från slutet av 1400-talet – från Nådendals scriptorium?’, Historisk Tidskrift för Finland 93 (2008), 318–350. Encoding added