Collection ID: 0007 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Gradual

Funders

• Council on Library and Information Resources

Call number

Lehigh Codex 23
(Bethlehem, United States, Lehigh University, Special Collections)

Alternate identifiers

• Hirsh: MS Hirsh 23

Publisher

Special Collections

Language

Latin

Origin

Place

Italy

Summary

This manuscript is a Gradual, in Latin, fifteenth-century manuscript on parchment, written in Italy. Originally 188 folios, now 175 folios. Bound in original wooden boards and brown leather.

Notes

• Front pastedown appears to be pages from a sixteenth-century Antiphonal printed on paper, possibly Venetian (per Marianne C.E. Gillion): Psalm 123 followed by an antiphon (with four-line stave in red ink and black square-note neumes); back pastedown from same Antiphonal: Psalm 118: 98-109, antiphon is 006889 in the Cantus Index
   

Extent

175; 440 x 295mm bound to 448 x 298mm

Foliation

Contemporary foliation in red ink, Roman numerals, upper center recto; later foliation (17th century?) in ink, upper right recto, through fol. 30

Collation

1-2 (8), 3 (8, -5), 4-8 (8), 9 (8, -1), 10-12 (8), 13 (8, -8), 14 (8, -1), 15-16 (8), 17 (6), 18-20 (8), 21 (8, -1 -2 -3 -4 -5 -6 -7 -8), 22-23 (8), 24 (6, -5)

Support

Parchment

Catchwords

Regular catchwords, lower middle verso: fol. 8v, 16v, 24v, 32v, 40v, 48v, 56v, 64v, 72v, 80v, 88v, 96v, 112v, 120v, 128v, 142v, 150v, 158v, 174v, 182v

Binding

Original binding, wooden boards and brown leather; pastedowns from a 16th century printed Antiphonal, possibly Venetian (per Marianne C.E. Gillion)

Layout

Single column, seven rows of text in black ink interspersed with seven four-line staves in red ink, with black square-note neumes

Decoration

Three miniatures, many decorated initials, musical notation

Script

Gothic

Related resources

• Cantus Index no. 006889 (http://cantusindex.org/id/006889)

Keywords

• Gradual
• 15th century
• Italian
• Christian
• Gothic
• Historiated initial
• Illumination
• Missing leaves
• Musical notation
• Original binding
• Italy
• Liturgy

Licenses

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Decorations

• fol. 2v — Illustrated border with picture of tree
• fol. 4r — Decorated initial P
• fol. 5v — Decorated initial G
• fol. 7v — Decorated initial R
• fol. 8v — Decorated initial P
• fol. 10v — Decorated initial U
• fol. 16v — Decorated initial H
• fol. 18v — Decorated initial D
• fol. 20r — Decorated initial L
• fol. 25r — Decorated initial T
• fol. 26v — Decorated initial D
• fol. 29r — Illuminated initial E
• fol. 32v — Decorated initial O
• fol. 34v — Decorated initial A
• fol. 36r — Decorated initial C
• fol. 38v — Decorated initial E
• fol. 40v — Decorated initial E
• fol. 44r — Decorated initial M
• fol. 46v — Decorated initial D
• fol. 47v — Decorated initial A
• fol. 48v — Decorated initial I
• fol. 52v — Decorated initial S
• fol. 54v — Decorated initial R
• fol. 57r — Decorated initial C
• fol. 58v — Decorated initial D
• fol. 59v — Decorated initial I
• fol. 62v — Decorated initial R
• fol. 63v — Decorated initial T
• fol. 67v — Decorated initial E
• fol. 69r — Decorated initial O
• fol. 71r — Decorated initial I
• fol. 72v — Decorated initial E
• fol. 73v — Decorated initial E
• fol. 74v — Decorated initial S
• fol. 76r — Decorated initial F
• fol. 77r — Decorated initial U
• fol. 78r — Decorated initial L
• fol. 80v — Decorated initial E
• fol. 82r — Decorated initial D
• fol. 83v — Decorated initial L
• fol. 85r — Decorated initial M
• fol. 86r — Decorated initial S
• fol. 87r — Decorated initial I
• fol. 87v — Decorated initial E
• fol. 89v — Decorated initial M
• fol. 90v — Decorated initial E
• fol. 91v — Decorated initial L
• fol. 93r — Decorated initial O
• fol. 94v — Decorated initial M
• fol. 102v — Decorated initial D
• fol. 104r — Decorated initial I
• fol. 107v — Decorated initial N
• fol. 109r — Decorated initial I
• fol. 135r — Historiated initial R, The Resurrection
• fol. 136v — Decorated initial I
• fol. 137v — Decorated initial A
• fol. 139v — Decorated initial U
• fol. 140v — Decorated initial U
• fol. 142r — Decorated initial E
• fol. 144r — Decorated initial E
• fol. 145r — Decorated initial Q
• fol. 146r — Decorated initial M
• fol. 147v — Decorated initial I
• fol. 149r — Decorated initial C
• fol. 150r — Decorated initial U
• fol. 151v — Decorated initial E
• fol. 153r — Historiated initial U, The Ascension
• fol. 154v — Decorated initial E
• fol. 157r — Illuminated initial S
• fol. 158v — Decorated initial C
• fol. 167r — Musical notation added in the bottom margin
• fol. 167v — Decorated initial R
• fol. 168r — Decorated initial D
• fol. 169r — Decorated initial E
• fol. 170r — Decorated initial D
• fol. 171r — Decorated initial O
• fol. 173r — Decorated initial E
• fol. 174v — Decorated initial D
• fol. 176v — Decorated initial R
• fol. 177r — Decorated initial P
• fol. 178r — Decorated initial I
• fol. 178v — Decorated initial M
• fol. 179v — Decorated initial T
• fol. 180v — Decorated initial E
• fol. 182r — Decorated initial U
• fol. 182v — Decorated initial D
• fol. 184r — Decorated initial I
• fol. 186r — Decorated initial S