Manuscript leaves on vellum from a Gradual. Italy, c. 1450

[GRADUAL]

Manuscript leaves on vellum from a Gradual. Italy, c. 1450

MUSIC MANUSCRIPT LEAVES

Folio (375 × 265 mm), 10 leaves (old foliation giving ‘42-51’), each page with 8 four-line musical staves ruled in red, with notation and interlinear text in brown ink, red and blue capitals, some calligraphic initials, rubrics. Slightly browned, heavier towards the edges, some rubbing and flaking to the brown ink, lower margin of the third leaf cropped and thus shorter than the others. Later inscription ‘Tommaso Guidalotti’ to first leaf. Preserved in modern cloth, 1450.

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[GRADUAL]

Manuscript leaves on vellum from a Gradual. Italy, c. 1450

A fragment of an Italian gradual, a service book for the mass giving music for the choir, sometimes also referred to as an antiphonal. It comes from the the early part of a larger volume and contains the texts and chants for masses sung on different feast days in the church year, including Corpus Christi, the Purification of the Virgin Mary (Candlemas), the Annunciation, Easter and the Assumption of the Virgin. For each feast is given the specific texts, partly drawn from the psalms and including the introit and gradual antiphons (sung at the opening of the mass and after the first lesson), the alleluias sung after the second lesson, and the offertory and communion antiphons.

Ex libris Dr. James Dearden (1931-2021), the Ruskin bibliographer.

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Manuscript leaves on vellum from a Gradual. Italy, c. 1450

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