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Graduals (Chants)

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 7 Collections and/or Records:

Fragment of a Grail, 12th century

 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

Fragment of an English Grail, 12th century

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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

Fragment of an English Grail, 15th century

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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

Fragment of an English Grail (Sarum), 14th century

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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

Fragments of a Grail, 12th century

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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
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f. 1r

MS 33: Gradual, 15th century

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Identifier: MS 33
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: 15th century

MS 34: Gradual (Carthusian), late 14th century

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Identifier: MS 34
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