The library of St. Florian holds 70 shelfmarks of fragments with several pages from the medieval music manuscripts. A smaller share is still found in the manuscripts, whereas the majority was removed from the codices during restoration, and placed in the collection of fragments. These are found under the shelfmark of the host volume. This inventory was developed together with a group of students as part of a course at the Institute of Musicology at the University of Vienna. The fragments are notated almost exclusively with staffless neumatic notation. If not mentioned separately, the original manuscripts were written or at least used in St. Florian.


Some of the outstanding findings are the fragment from Aribo's De musica, over 30 pages from a Liber ordinarius, which was presumably determined for St. Hippolyt (St. Pölten), several semio­logically interesting neumed sources from the 11th century, and pages from choire books from the 15th and 16th centuries.


In the case of mass books, three groups of graduals can be distinguished. These are formed by several shelfmarks, which originally belonged to the same or related full manuscripts: Group 1, end of the 12th cent., 12 pages; Group 2, 3rd quarter of the 12th cent., 9 pages and Group 3, middle of the 14th cent., 29 pages with many sequences. Group 3 consists of fragments from two contemporary graduals with similar script and notation. The sequences that originate in St. Florian also belong to this group. The Al. Adesto votis ecclesiae Floriane and Sq. Salve martyr glorioso for the patron saint Florian are included.

The oldest fragments of a breviary (XI 132) originate from the first half of the 12th century. The following former breviary manuscripts can be reconstructed: Group 1, unknown provenance, 2nd half of the 12th cent., 8 pages, Group 2, unknown provenance, 12th cent., 12 pages and Group 3, middle of the 13th cent., 6 pages. In addition there are fragments that can not be assigned to any group. Similarly, there are fragments from antiphoners that can not be grouped together. 16 different scribes can be identified, which indicate as many different full manuscripts. The majority originates from the 13th century, with three shelfmarks from the 14th, four from the 12th and one from the 11th century.


An overview of the fragments is available in the austriaca-database. The table includes indications of feasts contained in the groups of fragments. The aforementioned prominent fragments have been discussed in detail in the essay by Robert Klugseder. The images of the mensural fragments can be found here. The fragments cut up in strips are not included in the following.


  • Antiphons ad Mandatum and for procession in D-Mbs Clm. 12632, 11th and 12th cent.
  • Fragment of an antiphoner in XI 76, 2nd half of the 11th cent.
  • Aribo: De musica in XI 30, 1st half of the 12th cent.
  • Fragment of a Liber ordinarius from St. Hippolyt (St. Pölten), about 1200
  • Graduals: Group 1, end of the 12th cent., 12 pages
  • Graduals: Group 2, 3rd quarter of the 12th cent., 9 pages
  • Graduals: Group 3, middle of the 14th cent., 29 pages
  • Graduals: unrelated fragments
  • Breviary: Group 1, unknown provenance, 2nd half of the 12th cent., 8 pages
  • Breviary: Group 2, unknown provenance, 12th cent., 12 pages
  • Breviary: Group 3, middle of the 13th cent., 6 pages
  • Brevary: unrelated fragments
  • Antiphonary: unrelated fragments
  • Fragments from other institutiones