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GRADUAL, in Latin, DECORATED MANUSCRIPT CHOIRBOOK ON VELLUM
[Italy, c.1500]
510 x 360mm. 67 leaves: 13, 22, 3-98, 102, 111, 123, apparently COMPLETE, the final three folios originally the first three folios, five lines of music of square notation on a four-line stave of red between five lines of text in a gothic bookhand in black ink, on a ruling of 30 horizontals and between two pairs of verticals, justification: 430 x 273mm, rubrics in red, one-line initials of red or blue against patterned penwork grounds of the other colour, LARGE TWO-LINE HOLLOW INITIALS of red and blue against green-painted grounds with birds, foliage and ribbons in reserve (some spotting, offsetting and staining). Old brown sheep over wooden boards with three metal bosses on each cover (scuffed and worn and lacking two bosses from each cover).
Part of a series of choirbooks, this volume contains the sung elements of the Mass for the Sundays after Pentecost. It opens with the introit for the second Sunday, Factus est dominus. Originally it opened with the introit Dicit dominu ego cogito for the first Sunday after Pentecost: but this is also, and more customarily, the Introit for the 23rd Sunday and the three folios that once began the book have been relocated to the end of the volume. It originally ended with the rubric introducing the Common of Saints, presumably the subsequent volume in the series.
[Italy, c.1500]
510 x 360mm. 67 leaves: 1
Part of a series of choirbooks, this volume contains the sung elements of the Mass for the Sundays after Pentecost. It opens with the introit for the second Sunday, Factus est dominus. Originally it opened with the introit Dicit dominu ego cogito for the first Sunday after Pentecost: but this is also, and more customarily, the Introit for the 23rd Sunday and the three folios that once began the book have been relocated to the end of the volume. It originally ended with the rubric introducing the Common of Saints, presumably the subsequent volume in the series.