Browse the Western Manuscript Collection: G (continued)
Gradual
Three leaves, 50 cm x 38 cm.
Ms. 002426
Three leaves, two conjoint, of a late fifteenth or early sixteenth Spanish gradual. The leaves are written in gothic hand with square notation on five-line staves. The leaves are decorated with nine initials and there is clear evidence of erasure and correction throughout. Texts are for the week following Christmas and the week following Pentecost. Gift of Pamela Selvaggio.
Gradual
One leaf, 28.5 cm x 21.5 cm.
Ms. 002490
Single leaf of an Austrian gradual, ca. 1150-1175, writtin in an angular Carolingian minuscule. The text is on 21 lines with neumes between each line. It contains two large initials in red along with numerous smaller initials and rubrication. It includes texts for the masses for the 22nd and 23rd Sundays after Trinity, including chants in honor of the apostles and martyrs. In the margin of the verso is an unrecorded hymn in honor of the martyrs, "O beati beatorum martirum solempnia," with neumes. Purchase on the Benz Fund.
Gradual
Two leaves, 22 cm x 15 cm.
Ms. 002499
Bifolium from a late eleventh or early twelfth-century gradual. The text contains portions of the mass for Palm Sundy and tracts for Holy Saturday. As the text is not continuous, the bifolium apparently formed outer leaves of a gathering. The ruling is dry point and the leaves contain twelve lines of text and music on a single-line staff. The notation is in Aquitainian form. There are fourcapitals in red and the hand is in a continental minuscule in a protogothic form, perhaps from Limoges or Narbonne. Purchase on the Benz Fund.
Gradual
One leaf, cm x cm.
Ms. 003069
Single leaf of a gradual, written in central Italy, ca. 1100-1150. It contains 9 lines of Beneventan musical notation with a red F-line and a barely visible yellow C-line. The hand is late Carolingian. The text and music are portions of the propers for the Feast of the Archangel Raphael. The leaf was later used as a cover for a book in the 16th century. Purchase on the Benz Fund.
Gregory I, Pope, ca. 540-604
One leaf, 31 cm x 23 cm.
Ms. 002262
Dialogorum Libri IV, de vita et miraculis patrum italicorum. Single leaf of a sixteenth-century French copy of Gregory's dialogs, written in a round gothic hand with several embellished letters and one large decorated initial. Gift of W.E. Thomas.
Greville, Fulke, 1st Baron Brooke, 1554-1628
One leaf, 23 cm x 19 cm.
Ms. 000455
Letter, no date, to Sir Francis Walsingham. Contemporary copy of a letter asking the recipient to appeal to the Queen for compassion and financial aid. Ms. 00045
Greville, Fulke, 1st Baron Brooke, 1554-1628
One leaf, 23 cm x 19 cm.
Ms. 000456
Letter, no date, to Sir Robert Bruce Cotton. Contemporary copy of a letter noting that he is returning a manuscript, parts of which are illegible, and seeking a better copy.
Guilelmus Peraldus, 13th century
140 leaves, 29 cm x 19 cm.
Ms. Codex 003104
Summa de vitiis et virtutibus, ca. 1270 Text in Latin of the thirteenth-century summa on the vices and virtues and theology. Written in a cramped French gothic hand with rubrics and red and blue capitals. The first leaf is an early version of the text and may be a trial leaf. The text was written by two scribes and contains fourteenth-century marginalia throughout. The binding is contemporary with the text. Gift of the estate of William J. Bryant.