Gradual (fragment).

Description

Title: Gradual (fragment).
Published / Created: [between 1190 and 1199].
Publication Place: Lambach, Austria
Abstract: Manuscript fragment on parchment of a gradual containing among other items: First Sunday of Advent; St. John the Evangelist (27 December); Holy Innocents (28 December); St. Silvester (31 December); Invention of the Cross (3 May); Sts. Gordian and Epimachus (10 May); Sts. Pancras, Nereus, and Achilleus (12 May); and Ascension
Description: In Latin.
Script: written in Caroline minuscule.
Decoration: three-quarter page initial "A" on green, red, and pale yellow ground with vine-stem decoration; 5-line initial "O" with a face; 4-line initial "C" with a face; 5-line initial "U" with portrait of Christ on a red and gree ground with modest foliate appendages; other 3- and 4-line initials, some with herringbone patterns in red; rubrics written in a mixture of red capitals and minuscule.
Provenance: Written by the same scribe who copied the antiphonary now preserved as flyleaves in Vienna, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, s.n. 3619 and s.n. 3620.
Extent: ff. 1-8 : 308 x 165 mm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: Latin

Genre: Manuscripts, Medieval Austria 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
Manuscripts, Medieval
Graduals (Chants)
Subjects: Catholic Church > Liturgy
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Graduals (Chants)
Austria > 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.