Medieval Gregorian Chant Leaf – Prayer Commemorating the Trinity & St. Peter

Original leaf from a rare miniature manuscript Gradual. Four lines in red ink with text and musical notation in black ink (on a four-line stave), on animal vellum. Written in rotunda (rounded gothic) script in black and red. Italy, c. 1456-1500. The parent manuscript was written for Franciscan use, apparently after Pope Calixtus ordered the universal celebration of the “Feast of the Transfiguration of Christ” in commemoration of the victory of the Balkan nations over an Ottoman army at Belgrade, 6 August 1456. It may have belonged to the Tinto family of Venice in the 16th century. Graduals contain the musical chants for the proper of the Mass: introits, graduals, tracts, alleluia, offertory and communion verses, and sequences for special feasts. They may also include chants for the ordinary of the Mass: Kyrie, Gloria, Sanctus, Agnus Dei and for the intorductory ‘asperges’ rite.

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