Gradual, Western MS 097, 130v

Gradual, Western MS 097, 130v

Liturgy

1277-1298

Latin

Liturgical Book

Western MS 097, 130v

341 leaves

Ioannis Jacobus Pillman, Louis-Auguste Himly, Bibl. Brunner Sept. 1847

Manuscript

122 x 84 mm

Square notation on a four-line staff

Parchment

Upper Rhine, Eastern France (Strasbourg?)

Laudate dominum,* Tract; Sanctus,* Alleluia, Vespers antiphon; Laudate dominum*, Psalm incipit; Vespere autem sabbati, Magnificat antiphon

lxx added by a later hand above the unnotated incipit of the tract Laudate dominum, referring to the complete chant on what is now fol. 63r; lxv added by a later hand below

non-figural flourished initial in red and blue (height corresponding to one line of text and one musical staff); solid cascade border in alternating red and blue; anthropomorphic initial in black and red (height corresponding to one line of text and one musical staff); plain red initial (height corresponding to one line of text and half of one musical staff); plain blue initial (height corresponding to one line of text and one-fourth of one musical staff); floral decoration in blue in upper margin