Manuscript, on parchment, of an illuminated and decorated gradual made for use in the choir of the Olivetan monks of the monastery of Santa Maria di Baggio near Milan.
Description:
Binding: full deerskin over wooden boards; extensive metalwork on binding., Decoration: five miniatures; eleven large ornamental initials on gold grounds; many decorated initials with penwork., Gift of Susan Weil, 2014., Miniatures have been attributed to the Olivetan Master and the Master of the Lodi Choir Books., and Script: written in liturgical bookhand. Music in square musical notation on five four-line red staves.
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church--Liturgy., Master of the Lodi Choir Books,--active 15th century., Olivetan Master,--active 1429-1439., and Olivetans.
Subject (Topic):
Graduals (Liturgical books), Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval., Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven., and Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library.
Manuscript on parchment of a processional for a Dominican nuns' convent. Processions for Palm Sunday, Maundy Thursday, Easter, Dedication of a Church, and Holy Week are included.
Description:
Binding: original binding; brown pigskin over bevelled wooden boards; both covers blind-tooled., Decoration: red rubrics (rare); 2-line red plain initials for prayers; black cadels of 1-line height; initial on f. 1r decorated with a grotesque human face., Purchased by Thomas E. Marston in 1933 from J. Rosenthal., and Script: the text is written in a somewhat irregular northern gothica textualis formata. Musical notation is in nota quadrata.
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church--Liturgy.
Subject (Topic):
Holy Week music., Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven., Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library., and Processionals (Liturgical books)--Germany--Early works to 1800.