Graduals.
Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:
Gradual containing parts of the Proper of the Mass, with plainchant, for most of the Sundays from the First in Advent to Whitsunday, and most of the major feast-days., 1762.
The contents of pages 200-209 (not originally paginated) appear to have been added in another hand.
Gradual of Dominican use, Italy., 1st half of 16th century.
Noted liturgical books compiled for two nuns at the Convent of St Martha, Genoa.
Both volumes are written in imitation of Roman type. The stave, the rubrics, and the initials are in red; the text and the plainchant notes are in black. There is no decoration (except an imitation of a printer's device on the title page of each volume).
Two folios, numbered ccxlii and ccxlix, probably from a late sixteenth-century gradual., ?Late 16th century.
On folio ccxlii are chants for the sixth Sunday after Pentecost: Gradual, Alleluia, Offertory, Communion; and the beginning of the Introit for the seventh Sunday after Pentecost. On folio ccxlix are the concluding words of the Communion for the eleventh Sunday after Pentecost, and the Introit and Gradual of the twelfth Sunday after Pentecost.
Square notation on a five-lined stave; bar lines at irregular intervals. Blue and red initials with flourishes.