Gradual
Accession number:
MS M.513
Title:
Gradual
Created:
Germany, 13th century.
Binding:
Vellum covered strawboard.
Credit:
Gift, 1969.
Description:
95 leaves (1 column, 10-12 lines of music), bound : vellum, ill. ; 136 x 105 mm
Provenance:
Sotheby's sale (London, Feb. 6, 1861 (accompanying the Saville sale) lot 86) to Boone; Sir Thomas Phillipps (MS 25143); his sale (London, Sotheby's, May 17, 1897, lot 341); G. E. P. Arkwright of Crowshott; his sale (London, Sotheby's, Feb. 13, 1939, lot 96, illus.); Otto Haas (London, catalogue 26, 1947, no. 47); purchased by Mary Flagler Cary from Haas through Scribner's Book Store, New York, in 1948; Mary Flagler Cary Music Collection; given to the Pierpont Morgan Library with the Mary Flagler Cary Music Collection in 1969.
Notes:
Ms. gradual for the use of Rome; written and decorated in Germany in the 13th century.
Musical notation: lines of music with unheightened staveless German neumes.
Decoration: 6 ornamented initials, 5 with heads in red ink and one with an animal.
Script:
textura
Language:
Latin
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