Notation | Date | 10th c. CE; ? |
Type | French | |
Notes | A light and finely notated script, whose remarkable feature is the variety in size and angle of the signs used to represent single pitches: the signs extend from barely legible marks through to virgae and are written on vertical, diagonal and horizontal axes. The notator added an extra syllable accompanied by a neume to the second line, while leaving the first syllable unnotated: where the text scribe copied 'ad astra tendit', the music scribe notated 'astra tetendit'. | |
Transcript | Diplomatic Transcription | ![]() |
Alphanumeric transcript | 2a, 1a, 1a, 2a, 1a | [ ], 1a, 2b, 2b, ''3c'', 1a | ''2b'', 1a, 1a, 1d, 1a | 1a, 1a, 1a, 1a, 2b | 1a, 1a, ''2b'', 2x, 1a | 1b, 1a, 1a, 2a || 1a, 2b, 2b | ''3'c'', 1a, 2b, 1c | 1b || ''3'c'', 1a, 2b, 1c | |
Melody | Notation added beyond the first strophe indicates strophic return with occasional variation. |