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. Two large illuminated initials in colors of red, white, gold, and blue.The top of the page continues Psalm 44:7: deus deus tuus?” (God thy God hath anoted thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows. The large illuminated initial “E” begins Psalm 44: “Eructavit cor meum?” (My heart hath uttered a good word; I speak my works to the king).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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