Today's #FragmentFriday is this 16th century collection of remedies, written in Italy, but the fragment is the binding! It's a parchment leaf from an unnoted hymnal, written in Germany in the mid 13th century (it includes a mention of St. Elizabeth of Hungary, who was canonized in 1235) (Ms. Codex 115)

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Found here- hymnals

This hymn was found on a gate in Medinet Madi, in a southwestern region of Egypt. Originally in Greek, this hymn was translated by V.F. Vanderlip in 1972

This year’s top album was a revelation: one of the humblest records we’ve ever covered drew acclaim from our entire staff.  In a year of tumult, it comes as no surprise that we would be drawn to the quiet and unassuming pleasures of an ordinary day. Our overall list also conveys a concern with the state of the world as it is.  Two albums capture the sounds of street protests in different nations.…

YIPPEE NEW HYMNS

The first place in which I heard Hymnal, and I cannot think of a better one: a vast, blanched contemporary theatre, half empty but its audience, all sat, entirely captured, visuals flitting at precisely the pace of the music, a lone, towering presence onstage; glamorous and beautiful, of course, but also palpably agonised, rupturing in melancholy, an awesome display of the human voice, an entire audience overwhelmed.