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Gradual

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Leeds, University of Leeds Libraries, Special Collections, MS Ripon Cathedral Fragments/6

Chris Latham and N. Kıvılcım Yavuz, University of Leeds, 2023 (Born Digital)

Remarks by the Editor

This description is prepared as part of the Digital Explorations: Opening the Medieval Manuscript Fragments from the Ripon Cathedral Library project supported by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) Research England under the Enhancing Research Culture funding stream. 

General Information

Title Gradual
Shelfmarks MS Ripon Cathedral Fragments/6
Material Parchment
Place of Origin York, England (?)
Date of Origin 15th century
Script, Hands

Northern Gothic Textualis

Original Condition

Page Height 280 mm
Page Width 190 mm
Height of Written Area 201 mm
Width of Written Area 145 mm
Number of Columns 1
Number of Lines 11
Line Height 5 mm
Ruling Ruled in lead.
More about the Condition

11 lines of music, 11 lines of text.

Current Condition

Extent 1 leaf
Dimensions 280 x 190 mm
More about the Current Condition

Water damage, especially on the tail and fore-edge. The recto side of the leaf is particularly worn, with loss of text. The leaf was clearly used as a book cover, with the recto side constituting the outer side of the cover.

Book Decoration and Musical Notation

Description

Rubrics in red. One- to three-line initials in alternating red, black and blue.
  • Musical Notation

    Square notation on four-line staff in red. 

    • Content

    • Content Item
      • Text Language Latin
      • Title Gradual
      • Content Description

        Readings related to the Nativity of Saint John the Baptist (24 June) and the Eve of the Feast of Saints Peter and Paul (28 June), including:

        folio 1r: Chant: “[acephalous] [incipit] valet gaudia mater infecunda … [explicit] omnium pace ac vita” (“No. XXVI. In Natali Sancti Johannis, Baptistae” printed in Missale ad usum insignis Ecclesiæ eboracensis, 2 vols, Publications of the Surtees Society, 59-60, Durham: Andrews & Co., 1874. II: 291-92. Similar to Cantus ID: ah09243)

        folio 1r-1v: Chant, “[incipit] Alleluia Isti sunt duae olivae … [explicit] claves celi facte sunt” (Cantus ID: g02330)

        folio 1v: Chant, “[incipit] Dicit domine cum [esses?] iunior cingebas … [explicit] clarificaturus esset deum” (Cantus ID: g00255)
      • 002_recto

    History

    Origin

    Probably York, England.
    Remarks

    Removed from University of Leeds Libraries, Special Collections, Ripon Cathedral Library XVII.E.10. 

    Host Volume

    Title An aunswere to the Treatise of the crosse : wherin ye shal see by the plaine and undoubted word of God, the vanities of men disproved: by the true and godly fathers of the Church, the dreames and dotages of other controlled: and by lawfull counsels, conspiracies overthrowen. Reade and regarde
    Date of Origin/Publication 1565
    Place of Origin/Publication London
    Shelfmark Ripon Cathedral Library XVII.E.10
    Remarks

    It appears that MS Ripon Cathedral Fragments/6 was the former cover of the volume. The book currently has a modern alum-tawed leather binding over paper boards. 

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