Gradual

Description

Title: Gradual
Creator: Catholic Church
Published / Created: [between 1290 and 1310]
Publication Place: Switzerland
Abstract: Manuscript on parchment of a gradual containing the Mass of the Dead, Kyrie, Sanctus and Agnus Dei, and other feasts
Description: In Latin.
Script: copied by various hands writing northern gothica textualis libraria.
Decoration: rubrics in red; red stroking of majuscules; red or blue 1-line versals; alternately red and blue 1- or 2-line flourished initials with primitive penwork in the contrasting color; litterae duplices in various places.
Binding: 19th-century binding of reddish brown leather over cardboard; both covers blind-tooled.
Notation in cheironomic neumes.
Provenance: Signature of 18th-cent. owner on front flyleaf: "Ex museo Josephi de Fabert, D.M. 1782."
Extent: 136 manuscript leaves of music : 150 x ... mm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: Latin

Genre: Manuscripts, Medieval Switzerland 13th century
Manuscripts, Medieval Switzerland 14th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Material: parchment ;
Subject (Geographic): Connecticut
New Haven.
Subject (Name): Catholic Church
Subject (Topic): Liturgy
Graduals (Chants)
Manuscripts, Medieval
Subjects: Catholic Church > Liturgy
Graduals (Chants)
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Switzerland > 13th century
Switzerland > 14th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library

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Citation: Gradual. Music Deposit, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.