Leaf from a gradual
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College Park, Maryland, Michelle Smith Performing Arts Library, Lowens Room (Special Collections)
Anna de Bakker, DACT, 2024 (Born Digital)
General Information
Title Leaf from a gradual
Material Parchment
Place of Origin Spain?
Original Condition
Page Height at least 533 mm
Page Width at least 362 mm
Height of Written Area at least 430 mm
Width of Written Area 250 – 260 mm
Number of Columns 1
Number of Lines at least 6
Line Height 45 – 47 mm
Ruling 6 red five-line staves per page made with a rastrum
Numbering
Numbered xxxviii on upper right of recto.
More about the Condition
Likely the second leaf in the fifth gathering (of 8 leaves each). Gathering marking Eiii in lower right.
Current Condition
Dimensions 533 x 362 mm
Book Decoration and Musical Notation
Description
Red and blue initial (boxed puzzle initial) opening the introit on verso; elongated red initial for communion chant.
Square notation on six red, five-line staves. Downward-facing custodes.
Content
- Content Item
- Content Description
End of offertory and communion for feast of St. Thomas of Canterbury; beginning of introit for Sunday in the Octave of Christmas
- Content Description
History
Provenance
Probably purchased in the 1970s in Europe by musicologist D.E. Hill; in Idaho for several decades before coming to Maryland.