Reassembling Dispersed Leaves of a multi-volume Gradual

This exhibition offers an overview of a research project which aimed to identify and reassemble related leaves deriving from a multi-volume gradual. Western MS 080, held in the collection of Columbia's RBML, provided the impetus for the project, which has now expanded to leaves held in Houghton Library Harvard University, the Boston Public Library, the Free Library of Philadelphia, and leaves sold at auctions over the past century. Through an analysis of the contents, script, ruling, and illuminations, this project has revealed at least three volumes in this set: two dedicated to the sanctorale (the first spanning from advent until pentecost and the second covering post-pentecost through advent) and at least one dedicated to the temporale. 

See fragmentarium virtual reconstruction: https://fragmentarium.ms/overview/F-bsnr