Gradual.

Description

Title: Gradual.
Creator: Catholic Church.
Contributor: Catholic Church--Liturgy.
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: Binding: 19th-century binding of reddish brown leather over cardboard; both covers blind-tooled.
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.
Notation in cheironomic neumes.
Script: copied by various hands writing northern gothica textualis libraria.
Signature of 18th-cent. owner on front flyleaf: "Ex museo Josephi de Fabert, D.M. 1782."
Extent: ff. 1-136 : parchment ; 150 x ... mm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: Latin

Format: notated music
Genre: Manuscripts, Medieval--Switzerland--13th century.
Manuscripts, Medieval--Switzerland--14th century.
Material: vellum
Resource Type: Music (Printed & Manuscript)
Subject (Name): Catholic Church--Liturgy.
Subject (Topic): Graduals (Chants)
Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven.
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library.

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

Orbis Record: 11144904
Object ID (OID): 10675700
More Information: https://pre1600ms.beinecke.library.yale.edu/docs/musicdepositms64.pdf