Gradual (or Missal) (fragment).

Description

Title: Gradual (or Missal) (fragment).
Published / Created: [14--].
Publication Place: Spain or Italy
Abstract: Manuscript fragment on parchment of a gradual or a missal containing the Common of Martyrs and rubric for the Common of a Martyr
Description: In Latin.
Script: written in a formal gothic bookhand (littera textualis formata).
Decoration: musical notation in brown on 4-line staves in red; 1-line initials alternate red with brown penwork and blue with red penwork; the 1-line initial at the beginning of the rubric is a blue capital with red penwork, and the rubric is written in in a smaller version of the text script; words and syllables are divided by red horizontal strokes; punctuated with the punctus.
Provenance: Gift of Dr. Morton J. Loeb, 1956; according to Dr. Loeb, the leaf is from a sixteenth-century Spanish manuscript "originally used by the Choristers of the Cathedral of Jaen in Southern Spain."
Extent: ff. 1 : 711 x 500 mm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: Latin

Genre: Manuscripts, Medieval Spain 15th century
Manuscripts, Medieval Italy 15th 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
Missals
Graduals (Chants).
Subjects: Catholic Church > Liturgy
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Missals
Graduals (Chants).
Spain > 15th century
Italy > 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscript Fragments in Beinecke Library
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library

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