It appears to be the opening Kyrie of the Josquin's Missa Beata Virgine, ca 1510.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Josquin_Missa_BV_Kyrie.jpg I believe music printing was a thriving enterprise by then, so it's unlikely to be (completely) hand scribed. Cheers, Mike On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 4:46 PM, Nils Gey <den...@nilsgey.de> wrote: > On Fri, 10 Dec 2010 21:40:15 +0000 > Owain Sutton <m...@owainsutton.co.uk> wrote: > > > On 21:32, Fri, 10 Dec 2010, Nils Gey wrote: > > > I stumbled upon this picture of notation and I've never seen the final > note (in each voice, the right page voices have a slightly different > version) > > > http://anaigeon.free.fr/mes_facs/fsjosq.jpg > > > > > > From the position it must be a longa, the fermata over it indictates > the same. Best visible on the top left version is that there is indeed the > right-handed stem from a longa at the end of this symbol. > > > > > > Has anyone seen this in a different context? I would like to see more > pictures or versions. > > > > > > Btw. if you know any other strange or seldom used notation symbols > please let me know :) > > > > > > Greetings, > > > > > > Nils > > > > > > Probably just a scribal quirk - the incomplete illuminations give some > idea of how prestigious this volume was (or was intended to be). Which > source is it? > > If going to the root of this URL does not help I don't know. Google image > search. I searched through mensural music (and medieval) for exactly these > things. Strange looking or nice looking things in notation (without the > usual Ars Subtilior Heart-Shape Notation) > > Nils > > _______________________________________________ > lilypond-user mailing list > lilypond-user@gnu.org > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user >
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