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Item
Identifier: MS 211/XX
Scope and Contents
One leaf of a Grail, containing part of the Temporale from Ember Friday in Lent to Thursday after the 2nd Sunday in Lent. The music is in neumes. It does not seem to agree with any particular Use. The first line on f. 1r is very faded, as is the bottom of f. 1r, and most of the verso side.
Writing Initials are in red.
Dates:
12th century
Item
Identifier: MS 211/VI
Scope and Contents
One leaf of an English 12th century Grail. Contains the end of the Communion of Friday after Ash Wednesday, and then the service until the beginning of the Tract on the first Sunday in Lent. A modern hand has taken extensive notes in the margins and bottom of f. 1r. Illumination The contents are common to most Latin rites except the Psalm Domine, refugium factus es, which is found in the Missals of Durham and St. Albans, and is substituted...
Dates:
12th century
Item
Identifier: MS 211/XIII
Scope and Contents
A fragment (top right-hand corner?) from a leaf of a Grail, apparently of Sarum Use. Contains parts of two Grails and three Alleluias with their Verses, from the Common of Many Martyrs, as in the standard Sarum Use.
Dates:
15th century
Item
Identifier: MS 211/IX
Scope and Contents
Sarum Grail, containing part of the Temporale from near the beginning of the Sequence Dic nobis quibus of Thursday after Easter, to Alleluia of Saturday after Easter (including the greater part of the Sequence Victime paschali). Later hand annotations on the upper margin of f. 1r. Folio 2 is incomplete. A slip in the folder says: 'Primitive mensural notation in the sequence (The Longa has the double value of the Brevis but this usage is not consistent)'.
Dates:
14th century
Item
Identifier: MS 211/XIX
Scope and Contents
12th century Grail, each containing a folio and a half (much cropped), taken from the binding of MS 123 (Isidori Hispalensus Etymologiae etc.). It contains: 1) text from the Off. Ad te domine of Dom. X post Pentec. To Gr. Convertere of Fer. via Jejunii, and parts of 4 sequences. 2) From Ps. Domini est terra et plenitudo ejus in Vig. Nat. Domini to Gr. Exiit sermo In Nat. S. joh.; and one half-folio containing off. ...
Dates:
12th century
Scope and Contents
A Gradual (or graduale) is a book which contains the chants sung during the Mass. It includes the music notation together with the words. Like the Breviary, it is divided into distinct parts according to the two main cycles of the liturgical year, which contain respectively all the parts of the liturgy which vary in accordance to a specific observance (proprium de tempore, 'proper of time' and...
Dates:
late 14th century