Winnipeg, Private collections, D:07jj1

Cantus Siglum

Cantus D:07jj1

Holding Institution

Winnipeg, Private collections

Manuscript/Print

Manuscript

Summary

Two pages from a gradual, likely Spanish, with part of the mass for the Vigil of St James (July 24). 760 x 520 mm.

Description

Two folios from a large format gradual, with several aspects suggesting a Spanish or Spanish-influenced provenance from the early modern period. Rotunda text hand. Square notation on a red five-line staff; downward facing custodes; c clef with two south-east leaning strokes, f clef of three vertically symmetric lozenges.
Decorated with a major initial E for Introit (Ego autem) and I for the gradual Iustus ut palma. Both are red and blue puzzle-style initials inside a box the height of a staff and writing line: the E is filled in with red foliate ornaments and on a pale background (possibly yellow), while for I red and blue leaf-like decoration fills a rectangular box. A, for the verse "Ad annuntiandum", is in black and white penwork.

Foliated xli and xlii in upper right. A marginal note on folio xli recto refers the user to a chant to be consulted on folio 76 (possibly in another volume).

A few unusual musical features include the notation of the gradual Justus ut palma in an untransposed mode 2 (a b-flat is not indicated, but perhaps implied), and the shortening of several melismas, e.g. that for "domo domini" and "mane" in the Gradual and Gradual verse.

Full/Partial Inventory

Full Inventory

Complete Source/Fragment

Fragment

Fragmentarium ID

F-7jj1

DACT ID

D:07jj1