Two leaves trimmed and pasted together for use in binding as manuscript waste, possibly as a wrapper or endleaves. Fold (horizontal relative to text, vertical relative to former use in binding) and sewing holes visible.
Leaves from the same 13th century gradual manuscript with chants for the Christmas season including the Nativity (Natus ante secula dei filius), St. Stephen (Hanc concordi famulatu colamus solemnitatem)
Dates and brief descriptions for the Beissel Collection provided by Bernard Bischoff prior to 1959 sale. Digitized in 2020 by Peripheral Manuscripts in the Midwest.
Cataloging Convention
Englishds-schema
Decoration
Rubrication, including red initials and red staff line in some chants.
One of sixty manuscript fragments collected by Stephan Beissel and acquired by librarian Walter Roesch for the University of Dayton from William Salloch in October 1959. The collection is listed as item 481 in Salloch catalogue 180, The Middle Ages.
Script
Early gothic script with initials in red, music notation on staffs (some with red lines)