Western Michigan University, WMU MS 109

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS6381

Shelfmark:

WMU MS 109

Title:

Gradual leaf

Author:

Catholic Church

Catholic Church WIKIDATA

Place:

Italy?

Italy TGN

Date:

between 1400 and 1450

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

lat

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 1 leaf : parchment ; 345 x 255 mm

Note:

Ms. leaf from a Gradual; the Kyrie followed by the Gloria of the Ordinary Mass.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Parchment, single leaf. Original foliation on verso: "225". 345 x 255 (visible portion). Written in southern textualis formata (rotunda). Decoration: 2-line blue-and-red pen-flourished initials. 4-line red staves with square musical notation alternating with lines of text. Parchment mend at bottom. Now housed within a red wooden frame (375 x 285 mm); visible on both sides.
Unknown provenance, paleographical evidence suggests the leaf comes from a manuscript that was probably written in the first half of the fifteenth century in Italy. Possibly loaned to the WMU library school through Jean Lowrie from the Gethsemani Abbey Library of Kentucky in 1974. Now permanently held by Special Collections, Waldo Library.

Keyword:

Manuscripts, Latin

Graduals (Chants)

Graduals (Liturgical books)

Catholic Church

Institutional Record:

https://primo-pmtna01.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/f/4dvb3u/01WMU_ALMA21103902080002436

IIIF Manifest:

https://luna.library.wmich.edu/luna/servlet/iiif/m/WMUwmu~77~77~1222423~156645/manifest

Holding Institution:

Western Michigan University