Item Info

Script: Gothic bookhand
Language: Latin
Folio Number: f. 16v
Source: Rare Book Department
Notes:

This manuscript has been dated to around 1475.

Two Initial A's inhabited with human caricatures, including a bishop wearing spectacles.

This book is a compilation of eighteen leaves taken from the same medieval gradual. It has been suggested that the pages are from the same Carthusian house in Dijon as the Morgan Library’s M. 115: the calligraphic decoration is quite possibly by the same hand.
The opening shown here is to a page of music with a facing page of a liturgical calendar. The music is from Psalm 78: “Attendite popule meus legem meam: inclinate aurem vestram in verba oris mei…” (Hear my law, O my people: incline your ears unto the words of my mouth). This text is used for the Masses for the Nineteenth through the Twenty-first Sundays after Pentecost. Two inhabited initials adorn the page: one is a caricature of a bishop wearing tinted glasses.

Country: Country:France
Region/County:Burgundy
City/Town/Township:near Dijon

Creation Year (Single Year or Range Begin): 1499
Image Dimensions Width: 345 mm
ShelfMark: Lewis E 8