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Gradual

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Montreal, McGill Library Rare Books and Special Collections, MS Medieval 64

Anna de Bakker, DACT, 2021 (Born Digital)

Remarks by the Editor

Based on the description originally provided by Dionysius Hatzopoulos and compiled by Ann-Marie Holland in "Long Descriptions Ms Medieval Manuscript Antiphonals, Missals and Graduals. Digitization and Cataloguing Project- Antiphonals, Missals and Graduals" (Rev. June 20, 2019),16.

General Information

Title Gradual
Material Parchment
Date of Origin late 14th century

Original Condition

Page Height at least 530 mm
Page Width at least 315 mm
Height of Written Area up to 396 mm
Width of Written Area up to 242 mm
Number of Columns 1

Current Condition

Dimensions 530 x 315 mm
More about the Current Condition

Glued to a board; the other side is no longer visible.

Book Decoration and Musical Notation

Description

From Hatzopoulos's description:  "The large historiated initial is the first letter of the word Requiem and contains the figure of a skeleton, standing against a blue ground, decorated with white hair-line scrolls. The initial lies on a square with gold leaf contour. A two-quarter foliated, multicolored border occupies the left and lower margin. Red, green, blue and beige predominate, while a large number of bezants, single or in triads, with short gold/brown comet tails extending from them, border the foliated composition. The top of the border enters the upper margin and ends as the head of a woman with braided hair, in profile. At the bottom sits a male child, naked and seen from behind. The letter T, first letter of the Psalm, has in its left the profile of a bearded man, drawn in brown ink."
  • Musical Notation

    Square notation on four-line red staff. Seven staves per page. Custodes with long tail; red lines of division and a few very faint black ones. F clef has three components, with two curved parts and a tail.  B-flat formed out of two narrow, custos-like components, with tails pointing up and down. 

    • Bibliography

    • Seymour de Ricci, Census of medieval and renaissance manuscripts in the United States and Canada. New York : H. W. Wilson, 1935-1940, 64.

    • Elizabeth Leesti, Liturgical Manuscripts of the Middle Ages (Musée des Beaux-Arts de Montréal, 1987), p.35, no 7.

    • Holland, Anne Marie, compiler. "MS Medieval 64." Long Descriptions Ms Medieval Manuscript Antiphonals, Missals and Graduals. Digitization and Cataloguing Project- Antiphonals, Missals and Gradual. (Rev June 20, 2019),  16.

       http://public-content.library.mcgill.ca/digitization/longdescriptions_ms_medieval_antiphonal.pdf
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