Gradual (fragment)

Description

Title: Gradual (fragment)
Published / Created: [1150-1199]
Publication Place: Germany(?)
Abstract: Manuscript fragments on parchment of a gradual with chants for certain saints' feast days and masses for the dead. The bifolio has been used previously and elsewhere as a cover of a binding
Description: Script: The text is written in Praegothica, close to Late Carolingian handwriting; the musical notation is in neumes of the Metz type.
Decoration: Red rubrics; tall and narrow black initials with red filling; red plain initials. All the height of one stave plus one text line.
In Latin.
Extent: ff. 2 (bifolio, non-consecutive leaves) : 260 x 175 mm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: Latin

Genre: Manuscripts, Medieval Germany 12th 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
Germany > 12th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscript Fragments in Beinecke Library
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library

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