Gradual (fragment).

Description

Title: Gradual (fragment).
Published / Created: [between 1090 and 1099].
Publication Place: Southern Germany or Austria
Abstract: Manuscript fragment on parchment of a gradual containing among other items: St. Ambrose (4 April); Sts. Tiburtius and Valerian (14 April); St. George (23 April); St. Boniface (5 June); Sts. Primus and Felician (9 June).
Description: In Latin.
Script: written in Caroline minuscule.
Decoration: the 3- and 4-line initials at the beginning of Masses are in two styles: several initials are composed of hollow intertwining vines in red outline on a blue and green background; other initials are plain red square capitals; 1-line initials are in thick brown square capitals; 1-line initials of Psalm incipits are in brown rustic capitals; rubrics written in red rustic capitals; liturgical directions are in brown rustic capitals as are the first few words of each mass; punctuated with the punctus; interlinear neumes are in the St. Gall style; liturgical notes have been written in the morgin of fol. 3v in a fifteenth-century cursive gothic hand.
Provenance: Fol. 1 was used as a flyleaf for another volume; the bifolium was used as a pastedown in the binding of another volume; both fragments preserve a set of five rust stains in an X-pattern.
Extent: ff. 1-3 : 238 x 180 mm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: Latin

Genre: Manuscripts, Medieval Germany 11th century
Manuscripts, Medieval Austria 11th 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).
Germany > 11th century
Austria > 11th 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.