Graduale ordinis cartusiensis
Book
1578 (printed and published)
1578 (printed and published)
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Fragment of a copy, upon vellum, of the Gradual printed by G. Chaudiere for the Charterhouse of Gaillon: 34 ff. (incl. title, calendar, 26 ff. printed in black and red, and 1 blank leaf with a handwritten index.)
Note inscribed in a 17th-century hand: 'feuillets d'un livre de chant conservees accause du calendrier et des vignettes.- chartreuse de champ-mol près Dijon'.
Gothic types, printed in red and black.
Title-page: title in red within elaborate woodcut border or grotesque figures and cherubs, second block used below of the Cardinal Charles de Bourbon offering the Chartreuse de Gaillon to the Virgin and Child, woodcut initials.
Musical notation: square notes in black on four-line staff printed in red.
Note inscribed in a 17th-century hand: 'feuillets d'un livre de chant conservees accause du calendrier et des vignettes.- chartreuse de champ-mol près Dijon'.
Gothic types, printed in red and black.
Title-page: title in red within elaborate woodcut border or grotesque figures and cherubs, second block used below of the Cardinal Charles de Bourbon offering the Chartreuse de Gaillon to the Virgin and Child, woodcut initials.
Musical notation: square notes in black on four-line staff printed in red.
Object details
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| Title | Graduale ordinis cartusiensis (published title) |
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| Brief description | Book, Graduale ordinis cartusiensis [incomplete], Paris: Guillaume Chaudière, 1578. |
| Physical description | Fragment of a copy, upon vellum, of the Gradual printed by G. Chaudiere for the Charterhouse of Gaillon: 34 ff. (incl. title, calendar, 26 ff. printed in black and red, and 1 blank leaf with a handwritten index.) Note inscribed in a 17th-century hand: 'feuillets d'un livre de chant conservees accause du calendrier et des vignettes.- chartreuse de champ-mol près Dijon'. Gothic types, printed in red and black. Title-page: title in red within elaborate woodcut border or grotesque figures and cherubs, second block used below of the Cardinal Charles de Bourbon offering the Chartreuse de Gaillon to the Virgin and Child, woodcut initials. Musical notation: square notes in black on four-line staff printed in red. |
| Object history | (1) Pasted note in a 17th-century hand stating that the leaves have been kept because of the calendar and the vignettes - Charterhouse of Champmol, near Dijon (inscription: 'feuilles d'un livre de chant conservees accause du calendrier et des vignettes. chartreuse de Champ-mol près Dijon'). (2) Bought in 1895 together with four leaves from a 14th-century antiphoner (corresponding to Museum no. MSL/1895/19A). |
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| Library number | 19-1895 |
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| Record created | May 2, 2024 |
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