College Park (USA), University of Maryland - Michelle Smith Performing Arts Library, s.n. (fragment)

Cantus Siglum

US-CPpa s.n. (fragment)

Holding Institution

College Park (USA), University of Maryland - Michelle Smith Performing Arts Library (US-CPpa)

Manuscript/Printed

Manuscript

Summary

Single parchment leaf from a gradual; probably Spanish, 1500-1550. 533 x 362 mm; writing area 430 x 260 mm.

Liturgical Occasions

St Thomas of Canterbury; Sunday in Octave of Christmas

Description

Description courtesty of Barbara Haggh-Huglo, 2024, using information supplied by the donor.
Deposited 31 May 2024 at University of Maryland in College Park in the Michelle Smith Performing Arts Library, Lowens Room (Special Collections).
One parchment leaf in good condition with wear only to the calligraphed initials from a probably Spanish gradual of the first half of the sixteenth century (1500-1550) beginning with the winter Temporale. Owned by Mark Hill’s father, D. E. Hill, and inherited by Mark Hill.
Contents: chant of end of offertory and communion for feast of St. Thomas of Canterbury, then chant of beginning of introit for Sunday in the octave of Christmas.
Measurements: leaf 53.3 x 36.2 cm with 6 red five-line staves per page made with a rastrum, and black square notation, with custodes. Recto side (hair side): writing surface 43 x 26 cm [distance between outer penciled lines 24.9 cm], stave height 4.5 cm. Verso (flesh) side: writing surface 43 x 25 cm [distance between outer penciled lines 26.5], stave height 4.7 cm. Two parallel penciled lines to right and left of writing surface. Two calligraphed initials on f. 38v.

Possible preceding gatherings:
• If gathering signature is a ‘C’ then 11 unnumbered leaves + A gathering of 12 leaves + B gathering of 12 leaves + first two leaves of C gathering, then this leaf. Would begins with introductory material – a title page, approval of bishop, calendar? Then gradual begins with first Sunday in Advent.
• [Most likely] If gathering signature is an ‘E’ then 3 unnumbered leaves + A B C D gatherings, each with 8 leaves + first two leaves of E gathering, then this leaf

Other Editors

Barbara Haggh-Huglo

Full/Partial Inventory

Full Inventory

Complete Source/Fragment

Fragment

Fragment ID

F-eyhr

DACT ID

D:0eyhr