Fragment from a Gradual (DS9692) (Q43080)

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Manuscript metadata collected by Digital Scriptorium from The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens (.b18619186, https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1861918, mssHM 31052)
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Fragment from a Gradual (DS9692)
Manuscript metadata collected by Digital Scriptorium from The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens (.b18619186, https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1861918, mssHM 31052)

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    Fragment from a Gradual
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    Musical notation--Czech Republic--15th century
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    Graduals--Czech Republic--15th century
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    Grotesques--Czech Republic--15th century
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    Decorated initials--Czech Republic--15th century
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    Extent: f. 1 : parchment ; 405 x 568 mm
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    Title supplied by cataloger.
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    Opening leaf from a gradual written at the turn of the fourteenth century in eastern Europe, perhaps Bohemia.
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    Span folios: f. 1r-v. Support: Parchment. Layout: Ruled space, 395 x 270 mm; 5 lines of text and music, ruled in lead with double vertical bounding lines and with single horizontal rules limiting space for top and bottom of minims; pricking for the text lines in the outer margin, and for the staves at the edges of the written space. Written in a liturgical book hand; music in square notation...
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    Decoration: Opening initial, ca. 165 x 140 mm. (the height of 2 lines of text and music), in stippled gold enclosing in its upper compartment a sainted Benedictine abbot (or bishop?), seated, holding an apple (?) in one hand, his crozier in the other, and the Gnadenstuhl between his knees; in the lower compartment, under a gothic canopy and against a tessellated background, a kneeling king...
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    Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 12/13/2009.
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    Arms of the first owner, gules a fess argent between 3 sea-gulls (?) argent, 2 and 1, supported by a pair of seated lions; crest of the first owner, a bearded old man's head in profile, couped at the bust, proper, with a long cap curled forward, gules, supported by a pair of angels. Belonged to Alice Parsons Millard.
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    Alice and George Millard collection Illustrating the evolution of the book, acquired for the Huntington Library by a group of their friends in 1939.
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    22 July 2024
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    22 July 2024
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