Gradual, Western MS 097, 303v

Gradual, Western MS 097, 303v

Liturgy

1300-1325

still image

Latin

Liturgical Book

Western MS 097, 303v

341 leaves

Ioannis Jacobus Pillman, Louis-Auguste Himly, Bibl. Brunner Sept. 2452

Manuscript

122 x 84 mm

Square notation on a four-line staff

Parchment

Upper Rhine, Eastern France (Strasbourg?)

"Alleluya V. Post partum virgo," alleluia for Marian masses from the Purification to Advent; Kyrie melody 171

Non-figural flourished initial in blue and red (height corresponding to one line of text and one musical staff); solid cascade border in alternating red and blue; anthropomorphic initial in black and red (height corresponding to one line of text and three-fourths of one musical staff); non-figural initial in black and red (height corresponding to one line of text and three-fourths of one musical staff); plain red initial (height corresponding to one line of text and half of one musical staff); plain blue initial (height corresponding to one line of text and half of one musical staff); abstract line filler in red