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    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]

    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

    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