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Metadata

DS ID:

DS30515

Shelfmark:

ege-32

Title:

Ege leaf 32: Gradual, Italy, 1400s

Gradual

Place:

Italy;Florence

Italy TGN

Florence TGN

Date:

1400s

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Material:

Vellum (parchment)

Parchment AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 1 leaf; Vellum (parchment); 26.5 cm x 20 cm

Former Owner(s):

Ege, Otto F.

Otto Ege WIKIDATA

Note:

Script: Gothic
Script: Square (musical notations)
Decoration: initials (layout features); pen-flourished initials; rubrics; rules (layout features); long-line format; musical notation
The following text is based on the original seller's label. 32.VELLUM LEAF FROM AN ILLUMINATED MEDIEVAL MANUSCRIPT
ITALY (Florence)
Middle XVth Century
Latin Text
Rotunda Gothic Script, square notations
Gradual
(Graduale)
FROM THE COLLECTION OF OTTO F. EGE.
A Gradual contains the appropriate antiphons of a mass sung by the choir of the Latin Church on Sundays and special holidays
The text was furnished largely by the 150 Psalms and the Canticles of the Old and New Testaments
The superb example of calligraphy in this leaf illustrates the supremacy of the Italian scribes of the time over those of the rest of Europe
It is frequently assumed that this late revival of fine writing may have been caused by the concern of scribes over the impending competition with the newly invented art of printing
The music staff still retains here the early XIIth century form with the C-line colored yellow and the F-line red
The four-line red staff had been in use for over two centuries before this manuscript was written.
Fifty original leaves from medieval manuscripts, Western Europe, XII-XVI century

Keyword:

Manuscripts

Graduals (Liturgical books)

Institutional Record:

http://media.library.ohio.edu/digital/collection/p15808coll19/id/143

IIIF Manifest:

https://media.library.ohio.edu/iiif/2/p15808coll19:143/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

Ohio University