Gradual
Dimensions:
One leaf; 28.5
cm x 21.5
cm.
Call no: Ms.
002490
Purchase on the Benz Fund.
Description
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.
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