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Gradual – Fragment

Parchment · 1 leaf · 1405 CE · Italy

F-4h08

Cambridge, MA, Harvard University, Houghton Library, MS Typ 704.1 (16)
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Language
Latin
Reconstruction Summary
A single leaf containing the introit and beginning of the gradual for the first Sunday of Advent. Written in a gothic rotunda hand in black ink with red rubrics, the chant in black on a red 4-line staff. Initial letters are in red and blue with pen-work decoration. On the recto is a historiated initial "A" (beginning the antiphon "Ad te levavi animam meam") in gold paint and colors, showing David praying, with Christ above, being viewed from the side by a bishop and choir of friars. The initial continues into a foliate page-border. Title from superscription on recto. This continues: "Fecit fieri venerabilis do. Basianus de glisate prepositus ecclesie maioris sci basiani in laude ... quod scripsit et notavit frat. georgius de vicom[er]cato ordinis minorum. Inceptum die pm. a decemb. m.ccccv." That is, the ms. was written for Bishop Bassianus of Glisate and the church of St. Bassianus in Lodi, by George of Vicomercato, O. F. M., and begun on 1 Dec. 1405.
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09/06/2023

Gradual

Parchment · 1 leaf · 1405 CE · Italy

F-4h08

Cambridge, MA, Harvard University, Houghton Library, MS Typ 704.1 (16)

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Gradual (Fragment), Cambridge, MA, Harvard University, Houghton Library, MS Typ 704.1 (16) (https://fragmentarium.ms/overview/F-4h08)

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Gradual – Fragment

Parchment · 1 leaf · 1405 CE · Italy

F-4h08

Cambridge, MA, Harvard University, Houghton Library, MS Typ 704.1 (16)

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Online Since
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Century
  • 15th century
Text Language
  • Latin
Script Type
  • Southern Textualis
Illuminated
  • Yes
Liturgica
  • Gradual
Dated
  • 1405
Decoration
  • Brush
  • Other colour
  • Figurative
  • Gold and/or Silver
  • Ornamental
  • Red
Musical Notation
  • Square Notation
Italy
  • Role: Not Specified
  • Authority Source: VIAF

Gradual Introit and beginning of the gradual for the first Sunday of Advent

F-4h08

Cambridge, MA, Harvard University, Houghton Library, MS Typ 704.1 (16)
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Gradual, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University, Houghton Library, MS Typ 704.1 (16)
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