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Accession number:

MS M.887

Title:

Gradual

Created:

Castile, Spain, ca. 1500-1510.

Credit:

Gift of William S. Glazier, 1958.

Description:

2 leaves (1 column, 4-5 lines text, 4-5 four and five-line staves), matted : vellum, ill. ; 928 x 600 mm

Provenance:

Perhaps executed for a member of the Acuña family of Castile (Acuña arms, the Five Wounds of Christ, in border decoration of various leaves); Arthur Rau, Paris; gift of William S. Glazier in 1958.

Notes:

Ms. gradual single leaves written and illuminated in Castile, Spain, ca. 1500-1510.
Decoration: M.887.1: 1 historiated initial A containing the Miracle of the Gentleman of Cologne, full border decoration with historiated vignettes.
Decoration: M.887.2: 1 historiated initial R containing the Resurrection, full border decoration with historiated vignettes.
Musical notation: 4-5-line red staves with square notes
9 leaves were offered by Arthur Rau of Paris in 1958; a 10th appeared subsequently: 1. (Initial A) Miracle of the Gentleman of Cologne [PML M.887.1] 2. (Initial R) Resurrection [PML M.887.2] 3. (Initial S) Pentecost [Strouse Collection] 4. (Initial I) Miracle of the Gentleman of Cologne [formerly Strouse, now Getty] 5. (Initial P) Nativity [Detroit Public Library] 6. (Initial R) Expulsion from the Temple [Detroit Public Library] 7. (Initial A) Ascension/Resurrection [Detroit Public Library] 8. (Initial N) Miracle of the Gentleman of Cologne [Detroit Public Library] 9. (Initial Q) Miracle of the Gentleman of Cologne [Sotheby's leaf - to Yale?] 10. (Initial S) Miracle of the Gentleman of Cologne [Jörn Günther leaf]

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textura

Language:

Latin

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