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Gradual

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Description: The one leaf parchment gradual is from an unidentified manuscript, written in black and red ink with decorated blue and red initals, five-line red staff.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: approximately 1550.
Call number: mssHM 15628
Creator: Catholic Church(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Purchased from William K. Bixby sale, 1918.
Restrictions: Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.

Gradual

Manuscripts

Gradual is from an unidentified manuscript, written in black and red ink with decorated initials, five-line red staff with square notation. There is some water damage on the bottom of the leaves but no loss of text.

mssHM 82936

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Collection of leaves from antiphonals, books of hours, and the four books of sentences

Manuscripts

A collection of leaves from unidentified antiphonals and books of hours; also a vellum binding and modern ephemera. This collection includes: HM 82932 (1) - Peter Lombard, Bishop of Paris, two leaves of a copy of his Four Books of Sentences; HM 82932 (2-5) - 9 leaves from various antiphonals, with black square notes set on red four line staves with decorated initials; HM 82932 (6-16) - 38 leaves from various books of hours, with mostly black and red ink, decorated initials and illuminated borders.

mssHM 82932 (1-16)

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Gradual

Manuscripts

Non-consecutive bifolium from a gradual written in Italy.

mssHM 80508

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Book of hours, single leaf

Manuscripts

Text is in Latin; black and red ink with blue and red initials. Formerly laid in Noua Statuta (RB 494535).

mssHM 82940

Gradual : [manuscript]

Manuscripts

ff. 1-58v: [Gradual]: ff. 1-10: feasts of the Virgin, beginning defectively; ff. 10v-17: Secundus, including a prose; ff. 17-22: Holy Spirit; ff. 22-25: Sebastian; ff. 25v-28v: Raphael; ff. 29-32v: Kyrie, Agnus dei, Gloria in excelsis deo; ff. 33-42: Mass for the Dead; f. 42r-v [added in 17th cent.]: Stella celi extirpavit; ff. 43-58v: sung portions of the Office of the Dead.

mssHM 31543

Portolan chart : [cartographic material] : [manuscript], approximately 1502

Manuscripts

Black and red ink for nomenclature in a minuscule script with area names in square capitals; land masses outlined in color with islands painted in blue or red, gold or silver; 12 compass roses with the usual 32 rhumb line network in black, red, and green ink for principal directions; double latitude scales (numbered 5° higher on right than on left) and double equator (to compensate for magnetic variation), no longitude; distance is indicated by a series of small circles in lower right corner; decorated with a few figures and vignettes (very faded). Unbound: originally a rolled chart, now flattened. Parchment, f. 1 (full skin); 585 x 942 including left extension (map size, 530 x 772) mm. Top and bottom border decorated with gold in trellis pattern, latitude scales form borders at left and right. Also widely known as the "King-Hamy Portolan chart".

mssHM 45

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