[Gradual]

[Gradual]

Parchment; f. 1; 7 lines of text and music, the text written in a formal gothic bookhand, the music in square notation on 4-line red staves with the custos at the end of each set of staves. Some flaking of the ink off from the flesh side of the parchment (i.e. the recto of this leaf). Initials alternating red with purple flourishing, and blue with red flourishing; rubrics in red; in the upper left corner of the recto, the foliation in roman numerals, alternating red and blue letters: LXXV. A small indentation in the lower margin, near the fore edge, was perhaps intended to help the singer turn the page.

Written in Italy during the fifteenth century. Belonged to Louis Charles Elson (1848-1920) who was a professor of music theory and history at the New England Conservatory of Music from age 34 onwards; he had begun studying music with his mother, then went on to study in Leipzig; he composed songs, operetta and works for the piano, but mainly he studied and wrote on the history of music; he published in a number of Boston newspapers, and was the editor-in-chief of Modern Music and Musicians (1912; 20 vols.) and of the University Musical Encyclopedia (1912-14; 10 vols.), among the ca. 50 items that he published over the course of his life. The collection of medieval fragments of music that had belonged to Louis Charles Elson was acquired in 1924 by the Grosvenor Library in Buffalo NY; this library, together with the Erie County Library and the Buffalo Public Library merged in 1953 to form today's Buffalo and Erie County Public Library. This leaf was n. 18 in the Elson collection.

Leaf numbered 75.[LXXV]

Title and date from De Ricci.

Bibliography: De Ricci. Census, p. 1210, no. 13

Gradual with chants for the 3rd Sunday in Lent, beginning with the introit, In convertendo inimicum meum retrorsum.

Formerly classified as RBR Mss. C33G73 1300z

[15th century]

2023-12-19

Louis C. Elson Collection. no. 18

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1 leaf (7 lines) of music ; 58 x 41.5 cm

parchment (animal material)

RBR Mss. C33G73 1400z

[Italy]

//In co[n]vertendo innimicum meum retrorsum infirmabuntur et perient a facie tua. Tractus, Ad te levavi oculos meos quia habitas in celis . . . Vers., Ita oculi nostri a[added: d] dominum deum nostrum donec misereatur nobis. Vers., Miserere nobis domine//