Gradual
Dimensions:
Two leaves; 22
cm x 15
cm.
Call no: Ms.
002499
Purchase on the Benz Fund.
Description
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.
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