Leaf from a Gradual with Music (verso)
Unknown Artist
c. 1420–1450
Medium
ink, tempera, and gold on vellum
Dimensions
52.1 × 34.9 cm
Classification
Manuscript
Department
Medieval Art
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
The Jeanne Miles Blackburn Collection
Accession Number
1999.132.b
About this artwork
In manuscript missals and their musical counterparts, the gradual, votive Masses are generally assigned one to each day of the week with Saturday reserved for the Blessed Virgin. The votive Mass to the Virgin varied from season to season. Three Masses were, therefore, supplied—one for advent, one to be used from Christmas to purification, and a third, represented by this leaf, to be used from purification to advent. This text introduces the opening of the Introit for the Saturday votive Mass for...