Accession number:
MS M.855
Title:
Gradual
Created:
Austria, perhaps Salzburg, ca. 1260-1264.
Binding:
Austrian 18th-century brown sheep, blind tooled, over original boards, 2 clasps, in brown box case.
Credit:
Purchased from Mrs. Edith Beatty, 1951.
Description:
220 leaves (1 column, 20-24 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 322 x 228 mm
Provenance:
Executed for use in the Benedictine Monastery at Seitenstetten (once Seitenstetten, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. XIV); Jacques Rosenthal, Munich (purchased directly from the monastery); Sir Alfred Chester Beatty (w.MS 1371); Mrs. Edith Beatty; purchased through Maggs from Mrs. Beatty in 1951 with the assistance of the Fellows.
Notes:
Ms. gradual, sequentiary, and sacramentary (Seitenstetten Missal), use of Seitenstetten; written and illuminated in Austria, perhaps Salzburg, ca. 1260-1264.
Musical notation: neumes over red lines that indicate phrasing.
Decoration: 3 full-page miniatures, 50 historiated initials, 12 calendar illustrations.
Artist: 3 artists working in Austria, one, a Byzantinizing artist, stylistically related to the Giovanni da Gaibanna group that produced the Padua Epistolary of 1259 (Padua, Biblioteca Capitolare, MS E 2).
Script:
minuscule
Language:
Latin
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