Gradual
F-ui24
Based on work by Emma Leidy in 2023.
General Information
Narrow Northern Textualis.
One of several surviving folios from a Gradual made near Regensburg in the late thirteenth century.
Original Condition
Numbered "xv" in Roman numerals on left margin of verso (labelled "front" by library.)
Current Condition
Book Decoration and Musical Notation
Historiated initial for festal introit, depicting Saint Peter. Other chants begin with blue or red initial with red or blue penwork, two text-lines in height; verses in a tall narrow black initial touched with red; incipits with simple red or blue lombards.
Square notation on red four-line staff (nine per page). Occasional red lines breaking up melismas. Narrow clefs and small custodes resembling upward liquescents, both ouside of main written space.
History
Speculated to have been made for a Dominican convent near Regensburg (see the description for a related leaf: https://www.christies.com/lot/lot-4747453).