Medieval Gregorian Chant

This is an original leaf from a 15th century Gregorian chant. This musical sheet was executed by hand in manuscript calligraphy on animal parchment. The music and text (six lines written in rounded gothic script) are written in black ink, on a five-line-stave, with headings and rubrics in red. This leaf is related to a series of choirbooks attributed to the Master of the Cypresses (Pedro da Toledo?) who illuminated 20 Choirbooks now in the Cathedral of Seville. One illuminated initial extends the length the five-line stave and is in burnished gold with an interior motif on blue ground, resting on an outer rectangular red ground with a delicate floral motif; then extending into the margin in an elegant rinceaux-style border of vines adorned with gold bezants! Two calligraphic initials heightened with yellow. The calligraphic G” begins the Gloria ” Gloria patri et filio et spiritui?””

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