Leaf from an early Noted Missal, in Latin, decorated manuscript on parchment [Germany, eleventh or early twelfth century]

Single leaf, with double column of 33 lines of two sizes of a rounded Germanic Romanesque bookhand, with a notable angularity to letterforms and fishtailing to ascenders, music in Early German (so-called 'St. Gallen') neumes arranged over a single red clef-line, a few capitals containing red dots, simple red initials, trimmed at edges with losses of blank margins and a few letters from one vertical edge of the column, recovered from reuse in an account book, with stains, spots, folds, small holes and a seventeenth- or eighteenth-century inscription No 6, overall fair and presentable condition, 269 by 194mm.

This appealing example of early Germanic musical notation is from the collection of Roger Martin (1939-2020) of Grimsby.