GRADUAL: CISTERCIAN NEUMES ON 4-LINE STAFF

MS 207
MS Short Title GRADUAL: CISTERCIAN NEUMES ON 4-LINE STAFF
Text GRADUAL: SERVICE FOR GREGORY (12 MARCH), BENEDICTI ABBATIS (21 MARCH), ANNUNCIATION OF THE VIRGIN (25 MARCH) AND HOLY CROSS (3 MAY)
Description MS in Latin on vellum, St. Denis/St. Evrault region, Northern France, 12th c., 2 ff., 28x20 cm, single column, (25x15 cm), 10 lines in a formal Romanesque book script, Cistercian neumes on a 4-line staff, (yellow, green, red, green) with C- and F-clefs indicted,, 15 initials in red, blue or green, 2 large decorated initials in red.
Provenance 1. Bernard Rosenthal, San Francisco, Feb. 1989.
Place of origin France
Dates 12c AD