Gradual folio with chants for the Common of Confessors
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Evanston, IL, Northwestern University, Music Library, MSS 1600 (NW-L2-3)
Paul Feller-Simmons, DACT, 2025 (Born Digital)
Description URL
https://cantusdatabase.org/source/1000236
https://cantusdatabase.org/source/1000236
General Information
Title
Gradual folio with chants for the Common of Confessors
Shelfmarks
Evanston, Northwestern University, Music Library, MSS 1600 (NW-L2-3)
Page/Folio Reference
f. 1r–v
Material
Parchment
Place of Origin
Unknown (likely Southern Europe, possibly Italy or Spain)
Date of Origin
ca. 1550–1600
Script, Hands
Late Gothic bookhand
General Remarks
A dismembered large-format folio from a mid-16th-century Gradual, acquired with two other manuscript leaves by Northwestern University. The contents comprise chants for the Commune unius Confessoris (Common of a Confessor), including responsories, verses, and antiphons such as Inveni David servum meum, Nihil proficiet inimicus in eo, and Domine iste sanctus habitabit in tabernaculo tuo.
Book Decoration and Musical Notation
Description
Alternating red and blue initials, 2–3 lines high, embellished with fine pen flourishing in contrasting ink. Rubrics in red, with careful ruling and spacing to guide chant layout.
Black square notation on red four-line staves (tetragrams), carefully ruled.