Renaissance Gregorian Chant

Original leaf from an Italian antiphonal on animal parchment. From an Antiphonal attributed to the Dominican Order of St. Mary Magdalene in Quirnal, Rome, c. 1606. The manuscript text and music (six lines on a four-line stave) were beautifully executed by hand in black ink with headings, rubrics and rulings in red. One large illuminated initial in the shape of a dragon-like creature, in colors or red, white, silver, and gold. The large illuminated initial G” is from the Psalm 8:6-7: “Gloria at honore?” (thou hast crowned him with glory and honour and hast set him over the works of thy hands).Antiphonals contain chants for the canonical hours of the Devine office: first vespers or the vigil of great feasts, matins, lauds, prime, terce, sext, none, vespers, and compline.

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