(Q8661)
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Gradual (Diocese of Bressanone)
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Lambert, Frederick Arthur Heygate, 1857-1929
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Graduals (Liturgical books)--Specimens
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[between 1300 and 1325]
14. century
1300Gregorian
1325Gregorian
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Extent: 195 leaves : parchment, music ; 215 x 153 (173 x 112) mm bound to 215 x 155 mm
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Collation: Parchment, 195; 1-5¹⁰ 6-8¹² 9¹² (-1) 10-16¹² 17¹⁴ (with leaf 14 used to make flyleaf before f. 1); [i], i-xxx, xxx-cxxxii, [134-194]; medieval foliation in roman numerals in ink, upper center recto; modern foliation in pencil throughout, lower right recto. Gatherings are numbered i-xvii, lower center of first recto. References in this record are to modern foliation.
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Origin: Written in the diocese of Brixen in the south Tyrol (now Bressanone, in Italy), between 1300 and 1325 (King Alfred's Notebook).
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Ms. codex.
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Binding: 15th-century chamois over beveled wooden boards; little leather remains over covers, none over spine; boards split, upper cover detached; 7 bosses, 2 strap-tacks and a strap-hook for a lost strap; front pastedown, leaf with prayers, southern Germany, ca. 1400; back pastedown, fragment from 13th-century Italian missal or gradual.
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Music: Contains square notation at the beginning (f. 1r-50v), followed by Hufnagelschrift notation for the rest of the manuscript, on 4-line staves in red ink; neumes appear over some text passages (for example, f. 74v, 86r, 86v, 101r)
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Decoration: 4-line opening initial in red, green, black, and yellow (f. 1r); 3 anthropomorphic and zoomorphic initials (2-line initial with face of Christ, f. 20r; 2-line initial with winged dragon and 1-line initial with grotesque man, f. 146v); 9 2-line initials in red, yellow, green, black, and brown (f. 12v, 13v, 14v, 18v, 31v, 32v, 89v, 100r, 101v); 3 1-line initials in red with...
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Script: Written by at least 4 hands (Scribe 1, square notation and Italian Gothic script, f. 1r-50v; Scribe 2, Hufnagelschrift notation and mixed Italian/south German Gothic script, f. 51r-86v; Scribe 3, Hufnagelschrift notation and mixed Italian/south German Gothic script, f. 87r-183r; Scribe 4, Hufnagelschrift notation and mixed Italian/south German Gothic script, f. 183v-194r; additions...
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Layout: Written in 12 4-line staves with text below; frame-ruled in faint ink; pricking visible throughout.
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Title from rubric (f. 1r).
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Sold by King Alfred's Notebook (Cayce, S.C.), 2010.
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Formerly owned by Frederick Arthur Heygate Lambert of Garratts Hall, Banstead, Surrey (armorial bookplate, inside upper cover; inscription dated 1880, f. i recto).
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Exhibited at a Church Congress Exhibition (no. 36), in England, possibly between 1880 and 1930 (label inside upper cover).
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19 September 2023
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19 September 2023
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