[Gradual] : [manuscript fragment]
[Gradual] : [manuscript fragment]
Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials. Version 1. December 2002 Columbia University Catalog: go to CLIO 1 leaf : 380 x 578 mm Single folio from a gradual containing the Introit for the Feast of St. Michael the Archangel Manuscript fragment Parchment Title supplied by cataloger Origin: Central Italy (Tuscany?) Decoration: Large gilded, illuminated capital "B" with illustration. Gilded letter with brown tracery against a variegated ground of dark red and blue tracery in a spiral-vegetal pattern. Intricate marginal vegetal penwork in brown ink Layout: Six musical staves each composed of four staff lines drawn in red ink Script: Southern textualis Shelfmark: MS Western 129B (Columbia University, Rare Book and Manuscript Library) For another leaf likely from the same gradual, see also MS Western 129A Given to Columbia University from the estate of George A. Plimpton Binding: Not bound Catalogued
