Williams College, Gen Mss Weinberger Neumes

Metadata

DS ID:

DS25557

Shelfmark:

Gen Mss Weinberger Neumes

Title:

Gradual

Gradual

Place:

Switzerland

Switzerland TGN

Austria

Austria TGN

Germany

Germany TGN

Date:

ca. 1075-1150

eleventh century (dates CE) AAT

twelfth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Material:

parchment

Parchment AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: fols. 1; parchment; 295 x 200 (250 x 150) mm

Former Owner(s):

Adam Weinberger (active October 2023)

Adam Weinberger Rare Books WIKIDATA

Note:

Layout: 2 columns, 32 lines
Script: Late Caroline minuscule
Script: Script lacks horizontal compression associated with the transition to Gothic script. The only instance of fusion of opposing bows is "pp", characteristic of the earliest part of the transition to Gothic script.
Decoration: Enlarged initials in red
Bookbinder's waste, recto heavily damaged.
Edits and annotations by a ca. 14th-c. gothic hand.
Neumes lack staves.
Provenance: Purchased from Adam Weinberger.
Dated on the basis of script and neumes.
Gradual or antiphonal for the sanctorale. Readings are from the feasts of Saints Tibertius (12 August), St Hippolytus and companions (13 August), Eusebius (14 August).

Keyword:

graduals

Liturgies

Fifteenth century

Liturgics

Holding Institution:

Williams College