15th Century Medieval Gregorian Chant

Original manuscript leaf from an important mid 15th century Choirbook. This beautiful four-line stave musical sheet is from a Gradual of the Benedictine Monastery of Sta. Guistana of Padua, 1440-50. (Ex Col: C. W. Dyson-Perrins). Four lines of music, on animal parchment, written in liturgical gothic script. Interlinear musical notation is in black on a red four-line stave. One 3.5×2 illuminated initial “L” in a floral motif and in colors of red, pink, brushed gold, orange, and green with white tracery and burnished gold – on a blue ground with white tracery.A series or richly decorated choirbooks was made for S. Giustina in Padua in the early to mid 15th century. There are now four in the Biblioteche Capitolare in Padua.The large illuminated “L” begins Psalm 63:11: “Letabiur iustus?”(The just shall rejoice in the Lord, and shall hope in him: and all the upright in heart shall be praised).

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