Hymn Box of St Orph

The Hymn Box of Saint Orph is a Sanctified artifact that is included among the Articles of the Saints. It is a wooden case with the two halves carved from a single piece of yew wood, once polished and varnished to a shine but now dull and scratched with age and use. Within the case is a thick stack of loose sheet music written on various kinds of paper, parchment, and vellum, for many different instruments both common and exotic, and written in notation styles both archaic and modern.

Saint Orph was a well known and well liked patron of musicians, and was a friend to those too poor to be heard or ignored by their audiences. Many long years after the passing of Saint Orph, his case frequently winds up in the brief possession of a struggling musician, often under unusual circumstances. It has been said to have been found in a pawn broker behind a pile of bent and tarnished flutes, or under the pillow at an inn a musician was staying at, or bequeathed by a distant uncle. Each musician who possess the case, no matter how briefly, contributes a sheet of music of their own to the collection when it eventually leaves their possession.