Gradual (fragment).

Description

Title: Gradual (fragment).
Published / Created: [15--]; [between 1890 and 1910].
Publication Place: Italy,
Abstract: Manuscript fragment on parchment of a gradual containing the Fourth Sunday of Advent; the decorations have been added in modern times.
Description: Decoration: the parchment and writing appear to be from the sixteenth century, but the decoration was added in modern times; there is a 2-line initial "U" in blue, green, and purple on a gold ground and containing the figure of an angel striking a tambourine; foliage decorations in the same colors as the initial extend from the initial into the left margin; punctuated with the punctus.
Script: written in a formal gothic bookhand (littera textualis formata), with musical notation in black on a four-line staff in red.
The fragment is pasted onto stiff cardboard; gift of E.P. Adair, 1960.
Extent: ff. 1 : parchment ; 565 x 377 mm.
Extent of Digitization: Completely digitized
Language: Latin

Format: text
Genre: Manuscripts, Medieval--Italy--16th century.
Resource Type: Archives or Manuscripts
Subject (Name): Catholic Church--Liturgy.
Subject (Topic): Graduals (Chants).
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Citation: Gradual (fragment). General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.

Orbis Record: 12851363
Object ID (OID): 2004150
More Information: https://pre1600ms.beinecke.library.yale.edu/docs/ms485.1.pdf