ID: 700009451 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700009451	Record Type: Movable Work
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Gradual for Monastic Use (Augustian?) (gradual; illuminated at the workshop of Pacino di Bonaguida (active 1...; N/A; Museum of Fine Arts (Boston, Suffolk county, Massachusetts, ...; 01.6454)

Note: Probably Augustian. A gradual (a liturgical book, containing chants for the Mass) for monastic use, possibly the Augstinian order, with 174 folios (ff.) and 2 leaves:ff. 1 - 109: Gradual: Temporale and Sanctorale (partial)ff. 109v - 113: Litanyff. 114 - 160: Gradual: Temporale (continued)ff. 161 - 168: Temporale sequences(f. 168v: Originally blank, with a 15th-century addition in Italian on three staves: “Sanctus della domenica…”)ff. 169 - 174v: Credo (four repetitions of “Patrem omnipotentem,” each with a different melody)Each page with 1 column of 9 staves. Bounding lines in blind, doubled and full-length to top and bottom, writing lines in blind, top and bottom of line of writing ruled. Square heightened stemmatic neumes on a four-line red staff, c-clef indicated.Lacking outermost bifolium of last quire (one folio before f. 169 and one folio after f. 174). Catchwords lower center, last verso of each quire. Contemporary foliation in outer margin of each recto in epigraphic roman capitals alternating red and blue.Written in an Italian rotunda script in black ink with red rubrics. One- to two-staff-high initials in red and blue throughout with red spiralling foliate infill and blue filigree or vice versa, with contrasting blue or red berries. In-text initials one-line throughout alternating red with blue harping or vice versa. Seven 2- to 3-staff-high historiated initials painted in the workshop of Pacino di Bonaguida (active 1303-1340).

Titles:

Gradual for Monastic Use (Augustian?) (preferred,C,U,English-P,U,U)

Catalog Level: item

Work Types:

gradual [300026462] (preferred)

..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Information Forms (hierarchy name), information forms (objects), document genres, <documents by function>, religious texts, liturgical texts)

Classifications:

manuscripts (preferred)

Creation Date: N/A

Creator Display:

illuminated at the workshop of Pacino di Bonaguida (active 1303-1340) [preferred]

illuminators Pacino di Bonaguida (Italian painter and illuminator, active 1302-before 1340) Qualifier: workshop of [500023419]

Locations:

Other: Creation: Firenze [7000457] Firenze province (province), Tuscany (region (administrative division)), Italy (nation), Europe (continent), World (facet) (Geographic)

Current: Museum of Fine Arts (Boston, Suffolk county, Massachusetts, United States) [500305147] Corporate Bodies (Corp. Body)

Repository Numbers: 01.6454

Credit Line: Bequest of Mrs. Arthur Croft—The Gardner Brewer Collection

Display Materials: tempera and ink on parchment; bindings of calfskin over boards with metal clasps

	tempera [300015062]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by function>, coating (material), <coating by form>, paint (coating), <paint by composition or origin>, water-base paint)

	ink [300015012]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by function>, coating (material), <coating by form>)

	parchment (animal material) [300011851]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by origin>, biological material, animal material, processed animal material)

	leather bindings (bookbindings) [300417756]
	.......(Objects Facet, Components (hierarchy name), components (objects parts), <components by specific context>, information form components, gathered matter components, <bindings and binding components>, bindings (gathered matter components), <bindings by style or decoration>)

Dimensions: Overall (page dimensions): 35.7 x 26.2 cm (14 1/16 x 10 5/16 in.)

Cultures:

(preferred)

Style/Period/Group/Movement:

	Gothic (Medieval) [300020775] (preferred,N/A)
	.....(Styles and Periods Facet, Styles and Periods (hierarchy name), <styles| periods| and cultures by region>, European, Medieval styles and periods, Medieval (European))

General Subject:

text (preferred)

religion and mythology

Specific Subjects:

	mass (eucharist) [300379721]
	.....(Activities Facet, Events (hierarchy name), events (activities), cultural events, ceremonies, religious ceremonies, eucharists) (AAT)

	chants [300202525]
	.....(Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Literary and Performing Arts Works (hierarchy name), musical compositions, songs (musical compositions)) (AAT)

	Italian rotunda (script) [300417902]
	.....(Objects Facet, Components (hierarchy name), components (objects parts), <components by specific context>, information form components, <script and type forms>, scripts (writing), <scripts by form>, <Latin and Greek alphabet scripts>, rotunda (script)) (AAT)

Provenance: 1874, probably by descent from Gardner Brewer (b. 1806 - d. 1874), Boston, to his daughter, Caroline Abigail Brewer (Mrs. Arthur) Croft (d. 1898), Boston; 1901, bequest of Mrs. Arthur Croft to the MFA. (Accession Date: July 1, 1901)

Inscriptions: Rubrics indicate monastic use (with references to “brothers” and “deacons”), while the litany includes “Augustinus Cenobi,” possibly indicating Augustinian use.

List/Hierarchical Position:

..... Movable Works

.......... Movable Works by class: drawings, paintings, prints, other two-dimensional media

Sources and Contributors:
Gradual for Monastic Use (Augustian?)	........ [VP]
	........ Museum of Fine Arts, Boston [online] (2003-)

Subject: ....... [VP]

Note:
English	..... [VP]
	..... Museum of Fine Arts, Boston [online] (2003-) accessed 14 June 2018