Gradual, Western MS 097, 250r

Gradual, Western MS 097, 250r

Liturgy

1277-1298

Latin

Liturgical Book

Western MS 097, 250r

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?)

Desiderium anime eius,* Offertory; Magna est gloria eius,* Communion for the Feast of the Beheading of John the Baptist; Gaudeamus,* Introit; Propter veritatem,* Gradual; Alleluia V. Nativita gloriose virginis Marie, for the Feast of the Nativity of Mary

Non-figural flourished initial in blue and red with floral decoration (height corresponding to one line of text and one musical staff); solid cascade border in alternating red and blue with floral decoration in lower margin; non-figural initial in black and red (height corresponding to one line of text and one musical staff); floral line filler in red; abstract line filler in red and blue