Collection ID: 0012 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Gradual, incomplete

Other related names

• Vallombrosa (Monastery), former owner (https://viaf.org/viaf/157171228/)
• Cleborne, Dr. Christopher James (1838-1909), former owner

Funders

• Council on Library and Information Resources

Call number

21
(Philadelphia, United States, Library Company)

Alternate identifiers

• deRicci-supplement: 21
• Call-Accession-number: Ms. 21 5825.Q

Publisher

Library Company

Language

Latin

Origin

Place

Vallombrosa, Tuscany, Italy

Summary

This relatively compact Gradual was produced in Italy, apparently for the Abbey of Vollombrosa in Tuscany, in the fifteenth century. It is bound in original, exposed wooden boards. The first gathering is lacking.

Notes

• Original first gathering of folios I-VIII lacking; current first gathering, from folios IX to XVI is loose and out of order
   

Extent

82; 270 x 198 mm bound to 285 x 208 mm

Foliation

Original foliation in red ink using Roman numerals, upper right margin or upper margin

Collation

1-3 (4), 4 (8), 5 (6), 6 (8), 7 (4), 8 (2), 9-12 (8), 13 (10)

Support

Parchment

Catchwords

Horizontal catchwords in lower margin at folios: XVIv (now 4v), 20v, 26v, 34v, 64v, 72v

Binding

Original wooden boards; Library Company stamp on upper cover

Layout

Musical notation on red, four-line staves; seven staves, with accompanying text, to a page; ruled in purple ink; written area: 215 x 150 mm

Decoration

Blue penwork initials heightened in red; small pen-flourished initials, alternating blue and red

Script

Gothic--rotunda

Provenance

• According to label and two loose cards inside front cover, manuscript was presented by "Dr. Cleborne, U.S.N."
   

Related resources

• Faye, C.U., continued and edited by W.H. Bond, Supplement to the Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada (New York: Bibliographical Society of America, 1962), p. 469, no. 21.

Keywords

• Gradual
• 15th century
• Italian
• Musical notation
• Italy
• Devotion
• Liturgy

Licenses

• Text

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Table of contents

• fol. 11r — Gradual (first gathering lacking)

Decorations

• Inside front cover — Bookplate, Library Company of Philadelphia
• Inside front cover — Label, Library Company of Philadelphia
• fol. 12v — Decorated initial S
• fol. 17r — Decorated initial R
• fol. 23v — Decorated initial P
• fol. 25v — Decorated initial I
• fol. 27r — Decorated initial R
• fol. 29v — Decorated initial V
• fol. 31v — Decorated initial S
• fol. 33v — Decorated initial E
• fol. 37v — Decorated initial I
• fol. 39v — Decorated initial P
• fol. 41v — Decorated initial S
• fol. 42v — Decorated initial I
• fol. 45v — Decorated initial S
• fol. 47r — Decorated initial O
• fol. 48v — Decorated initial D
• fol. 53r — Decorated initial E
• fol. 55r — Decorated initial G
• fol. 58r — Decorated initial T
• fol. 61r — Decorated initial S
• fol. 65r — Decorated initial C
• fol. 91v — Decorated initial R
• Inside back cover — Pen trials