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Title

Mercedarian gradual.

Authors

• Mercedarians

Call number

Oversize Ms. Codex 2085
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206, University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9978152321303681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1350439915
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/366232

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Latin with some paraliturgical notes in Catalan

Origin

Date

after 1657

Place

Spain or New Spain

Summary

Part of a late 17th- or early 18th-century gradual containing chants for the Mass particular to the Mercedarians. Includes propers for the Mass for the Solemnitas Descensionis B.V. Mariae de Mercede (Feast of Our Lady of Mercy), the feast of the patron of the order, and the feast of Saint Raymond Nonnatus, a Mercedarian priest canonized in 1657. One musical passage is a simple example of polyphony, with parts for contralto, tenor, and bass (p. 12). The gradual contains a heading and a couple of notes referring to the Missa Indiana (p. 8, 15, 17), suggesting that these Latin chants were used by the priest in conjunction with vernacular singing by an indigenous congregation, but no indigenous texts are written in the manuscript. Pagination and marginal notes show signs of trimming for rebinding, and the Te Deum at the end (p. 38) is incomplete.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger.
   

Extent

29 leaves : 335 x 245 mm bound to 340 x 250 mm

Foliation

Paper, i + 29 + ii; [1], 2-58, original pagination in ink, modern pagination in pencil, upper outer corners.

Support

Paper

Binding

Later (19th-century?) paper over pasteboard with marbled pastedowns and endleaves and damaged labels on the covers from the business of Tomas Cervera, a stationer in Valencia, Spain.

Layout

7 five-line staves with underlying text.

Script

Chant texts written in humanistic script with additional notes in cursive script, by multiple hands.

Provenance

• Sold by Elena Gallego (Madrid and San Antonio, Texas), 2022.
   

Subjects topical

• Raymond,--Nonnatus, Saint,--approximately 1204-1240
• Mercy, Our Lady of

Genres

• codices (bound manuscripts)
• Graduals (Service books)
• Sequences (Music)
• Gregorian chants
• Manuscripts, Latin--17th century
• Manuscripts, Catalan--17th century
• Manuscripts, Latin--18th century
• Manuscripts, Catalan--18th century
• Manuscripts, European

Keywords

• Gradual
• 17th century
• 18th century
• Spanish
• Spain
• Paper
• Musical notation
• Liturgy

Licenses

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Table of contents

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