Gradual

Description

Title: Gradual
Published / Created: 13th century
Publication Place: Italy (Bologna)
Abstract: Parchment fragments of an antiphonary, including two strophes of the hymn "Sancte Dei pretiose / Protomartyr Stephane", and the end of the hymn "Te Deum laudamus."
Description: In Latin.
Script: copied by a single scribe in Southern Gothica Textualis Formata (Rotunda), using Uncial and Half-Uncial d. The colophon and the colophon formula on f. 2r are in a small Gothica Cursiva Formata (Cancelleresca).
Red rubrics. Alternately red and blue flourished initials, with respectively blue and red penwork, in two sizes: the smaller ones reaching to the third line of the accompanying stave, the large ones to the top line of the accompanying stave. The writing, musical notation and illumination are by the scribe and miniaturist Iacobellus Muriolus de Salerno, whose first product this is according to the colophon.
Manuscript fragment on parchment of the end of "Te deum" in a Gradual, as well as two strophes of the hymn "Sancte Dei pretiose / Protomartyr Stephane." The colophon is signed by the scribe, Jacobellus de Salerno. With an additional leaf.
Extent: ff. 2 : 545 x 360 mm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: Latin

Genre: Manuscripts, Medieval Italy 13th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscript Fragments in Beinecke Library
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Material: parchment ;
Resource Type: unspecified
Subject (Geographic): Connecticut
New Haven.
Subject (Name): Catholic Church
Subject (Topic): Liturgy
Graduals (Liturgical books)
Manuscripts, Medieval
Subjects: Catholic Church > Liturgy
Graduals (Liturgical books)
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Italy > 13th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscript Fragments in Beinecke Library
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library

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Citation: Gradual. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.