Codex Sangallensis 484

Abbey of St. Gallen, second quarter of the tenth century
Carolingian minuscule, written before Codex 381, by the same scribe

Stiftsbibliothek Sankt Gallen, St. Gallen (Switzerland)
Codex 484

Date of Publication of the Facsimile: 1996
Publisher: Amadeus verlag, Winterthur (Switzerland), for the Zentralbibliothek, Zurich (Switzerland)
Production, composition and Notengrafik: Bibliomania GmbH, Frankfurt am Main (Germany)
Printing: Weber Repro AG, Photolithos, Schaffhausen (Switzerland)

This is a collection of tropes (that is, of liturgical songs of varying length which provided context or commentary for the prescribed liturgical chants) for the Proper and the Ordinary of the Mass, as well as sequence melodies and other chants.

The openings presented here are from the section devoted to the melodies only. One must assume that the text of each sequence was well known, and that it was sufficient to mention the first words. This would certainly be true of the monastic cantor, for whom the book was probably intended. On the other hand, it is puzzling that the melodies are copied in this manuscript from the bottom to the top of the pages.

pages 78-79 (48K)

pages 80-81 (48K)

pages 82-83 (48K)

pages 84-85 (56K)

Codex Sangallensis 381