Fragment of a 14th-century Gradual in the Hungarian National Archives
Fragment of a 14th-century Gradual in the Hungarian National Archives

Summary/Abstract: One of the most important collections in Hungary for documents containing medieval codex fragments as their binding is the Archives of the Hungarian Treasury, Section E of the Hungarian National Archives (MNL OL) in Budapest. This study will focus on a recentlydiscovered medieval notated codex fragment, which was used as a cover of a document in the archival records of the Hungarian Chamber. In this archive, documents of the same type are organized into separate groups, subgroups and collections. One of them is the collection known as Urbaria et Conscriptiones, marked in the archival order as siglum E 156. The fragment is a complete bifolium of a 14th-century gradual. The two complete parchment leaves, with 11 lines of text and music per page, show the late stage of the Esztergom notation, which also makes it clear that the original manuscript, the 14th-century gradual was copied and used in the medieval Kingdom of Hungary.

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