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Printed gradual leaves with chants for Holy Week and Easter

F-61uj

Evanston, IL, Northwestern University, Music Library, MSS 1600 (NW-L3-4)

Paul Feller-Simmons, DACT, 2025 (Born Digital)

General Information

Title Printed gradual leaves with chants for Holy Week and Easter
Shelfmarks Evanston, Northwestern University, Music Library, MSS 1600 (NW-L3-4)
Page/Folio Reference pp. 199–200, 247–248
Material Paper
Place of Origin Venice
Date of Origin 1672
Script, Hands

Printed italic type for text, with rubrics in red; musical notation printed separately in black on red staves
General Remarks

Two non-contiguous printed leaves, fragmentary remains of a larger Venetian liturgical book, likely a gradual or combined gradual/antiphoner printed for ecclesiastical use in the later 17th century. Contents include chants for Maundy Thursday (pp. 199–200) and Low Sunday/Easter Octave (pp. 247–248). The leaves are rubricated, with hand-colored initials added post-printing.

Book Decoration and Musical Notation

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Rubrication throughout, with hand-colored initials (red, occasionally blue or green wash) marking chant incipits and liturgical divisions.
  • Musical Notation

    Printed black square notation on red four-line staves (tetragrams). Chants laid out with psalm-tone incipits indicated; modal cadences clearly marked.
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