ID 1053143
Lot 29 | Beneventan neumes
Gradual, with Tropes, in Latin, manuscript on vellum [Southern Italy, mid-12th century]
A leaf from a Beneventan Gradual with neumes arranged around a single horizontal red line: the origins of the musical staff.
One leaf cut in two pieces, c.310 x 216mm, 11 lines written in Beneventan minuscule in brown ink, neumes arranged around a single red line, written in a darker ink, large initial 'T' of interlacing design filled with red-brown and yellow wash, smaller initials and rubrics (recovered from a binding and consequently cropped and somewhat worn). Bound in grey buckram at the Quaritch bindery.
Provenance:
(1) Otto Ege (1888-1951). From his collection sold at Sotheby's, 26 November 1985, lot 41.
(2) Bernard Quaritch Ltd., Bookhands of the Middle Ages IV: Beneventan Script, cat.1128 (1990), no 14. Acquired in May 1988.
(3) Schøyen Collection, MS 72.
Text:
The text contains the Mass for the Dedication of a Church.
Script and music:
The script has an uncalligraphic appearance, and the initial 'T' is crudely rendered. The constant intrusion of the Carolingian minuscule 'a' (for example line 1, 'aula tonantis'; line 2, 'fundata'; line 8 'vocabitur' etc.) indicates that the parent manuscript was copied in a centre on the periphery zone. A decisive advance in the development of notation was made when the scribe drew a horizontal red line to represent the pitch F, and grouped the neumes about the line. In time a second line, usually yellow, was drawn for C. This invention of the staff made it possible to note precisely the relative pitch of the notes of a melody, and freed music from its hitherto exclusive dependence on oral tradition. It was one of the most important events in the history of music. See D.J. Grout, A History of Western Music, 1962, pp.55-56.
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