One leaf of a gradual. Gothic script in brown-black ink copied in two columns with square notation on 4-line red staves in the intervening spaces. F- and C-clefs. Initials are finely decorated with red and blue pen flourishes. Custos with upward diagonal line. 6 staves are visible on each side of this leaf. There appears to be a folio number written in red ink on the top left-hand corner of the verso but is cut off. The remnants of holes for binding cords makes it clear which are the recto and verso sides. Catalogued in Cantus Database.
Letter Details
Time Period
Pen flourishes may suggest late 15th century
Transcription
Transcription
RECTO
Dicit dominus
petro cum esses iunior
cingebas te et ambula
bas ubi uolebas cum au
tem senueris exten
des manus tuas et ali
VERSO
us te cinget et ducet
quo tu non uis hoc autem
dixit significans qua
morte clarificaturus
esset deum v. Celi
enarrant gloriam dei et
Language
Latin
Translation
RECTO
The Lord says
to Peter, when you were younger
you girded yourself and walked
where you wanted, but when
you are old you stretch
out your hands and someone
VERSO
else will gird you and lead you
but this he said,
signifying by what
death he was going to glorify
God. v. The heavens
declare the glory of God and
