Gregorian Chant - Master of the Cypresses workshop

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Original leaf from a 15th century Gregorian chant. This musical sheet was executed by hand in manuscript calligraphy on animal parchment. (610x430mm) 

The music and text (six lines written in rounded gothic script) are written in black ink, on a five-line-stave, with headings and rubrics in red.        

Spain: Seville, c. 1460-90.

This striking leaf is related to a series of choirbooks attributed to the Master of the Cypresses who illuminated twenty Choirbooks that are preserved in the Cathedral of Seville. Once thought to be Pedro da Toledo, he is now believed to be Nicolás Gómez – active 1460-90.

The two illuminated initials extend the length of the five-line stave and are in burnished gold with and interior floral motif on red ground, resting on an outer rectangular blue ground with a delicate floral motif; with the ''''” extending into the margin in an elegant rinceaux-style border of vines adorned with gold bezants! Two calligraphic initials heightened with yellow.

The illuminated ''Q'' begins Psalm 125 (KJ 126) 5-6: ''Qui seminant…'' (Going they went and wept, casting their seeds. But coming they shall come with joyfulness, carrying their sheaves).

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