Leaf of a gradual

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Montreal, McGill Library Rare Books and Special Collections, MS Medieval 0065

Remarks by the Editor

Description drawn from Holland, Ann Marie. Long Descriptions Ms Medieval Manuscript Antiphonals, Missals and Graduals, Digitization and Cataloguing Project- Antiphonals, Missals and Graduals, pp. 16-17. McGill Library—Rare Books and Special Collections. Updated 6 Dec 2018.

General Information

Title Leaf of a gradual
Shelfmarks MS Medieval 0065
Material Parchment
Place of Origin Italy

Original Condition

Page Height at least 531 mm
Page Width at least 317 mm
Number of Columns 1
Number of Lines at least 7

Current Condition

Dimensions 531 x 317 mm
More about the Current Condition

Clearly fragmented for the art market. The leaf is glued to a board and framed so only one side is visible. 

Book Decoration and Musical Notation

Description

From McGill's description: "The large historiated initial is the first letter of the word Salve and contains the Virgin, in a blue-coloured mantle, protecting with it seven, white dressed, kneeling monks. Farquhar-Montpetit suggests a Cistercian origin. The figures stand on green ground while the white, scroll-containing initial lies on a square, with gold leaf contour.
A two and one half quarter border occupies part of the upper, the whole left and almost the whole of the lower margin. It is foliated, containing tweesting acanthus leaves in blue, light-blue, green, red, white and yellow colors. A large number of bezants, single or in triads, with short yellow comet tails, surround the decorated borders or stem from the foliated elements of it. From a green bud, in the lower border, stems a male head, seen from the front, wearing a blue hood-like head cover."

  • Musical Notation

    Square notation on a four-line red staff. 

  • History

    Remarks

    According to Holland, "the style, decoration, coloring and dimensions point to a common source with CDN-Mlr MS 0064, described by Leesti (Liturgical Manuscripts, p. 35, no 7). MS 0065 has been described by Farquhar-Montpetit in "Canada Collects the Middle-Ages," pp. 73-74, no 77."

    Bibliography

    • Farquhar-Montpetit, Marie. In Canada Collects the Middle Ages/le Moyen Age Au Travers Des Collections Canadiennes. Regina, SK: MacKenzie Art Gallery, 1986.

    • Leesti, Elizabeth. Les manuscrits liturgiques du Moyen âge. Liturgical Manuscripts of the Middle Ages. Montréal: Musée des Beaux-Arts de Montréal, 1987.

    • Compiled by Dionysios Hatzopoulos, ed. by Ann Marie Holland. “11. MS Medieval 65.” In Long Descriptions Ms Medieval Manuscript Antiphonals, Missals and Graduals, Digitization and Cataloguing Project- Antiphonals, Missals and Graduals, pp. 16-17. McGill Library—Rare Books and Special Collections. Updated 6 Dec 2018.