Notated Music [Cistercian gradual]
About this Item
Title
- [Cistercian gradual]
Created / Published
- [11--]
Headings
- - Graduals (Chants)
- - Propers (Music)
Notes
- - Latin words.
- - Added leaf with a sequence for the Mass of the Assumption; temporale; Sanctorale for ca. 100 saints' days; dedication; Marian preface tones (notated).
- - In miniscules; initials in red, and red-yellow.
- - Four-line Guidonian staves with red F and faded yellow C clef lines.
- - Early gothic neumes.
- - Binding in pressed pigskin over boards with two metal clasps.
- - Title from: Schutzner, Svato. Medieval and Renaissance ms. bks.
- - Parchment codex of German origin, belonging to the second half of the XII cent.; the work of several writers (probably three for the main body of the manuscript).
- - Possibly Zwettl in Lower Austria; Cistercian abbey Saüsenstein in Lower Austria; Jacobus Wisser von W(angen?); Abraham Schelhorn.
- - Purchase; J. Rosenthal; Munich; 1928.
- - Schutzner, Svato. Medieval and renaissance manuscript books in the Library of Congress : a descriptive catalog, MS 11, p. 79-86
- - Ricci, S. de. Census of Medieval and Renaissance mss., p. 79, no. 162
Medium
- i, 143 leaves of ms. music (1 column, 8-9 lines), bound : parchment ; 20 x 15 cm.
Call Number/Physical Location
- M2147 XII M1
Digital Id
Library of Congress Control Number
- 2009536458
Online Format
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