A Gradual that may have been at the Maigrauge, a convent for Cistercian nuns, or it could have come from Hauterive, since a fire at the Maigrauge in the 17th century destroyed many original codices. 2 Papal bulls are glued at the beginning and end; they are 13th century and are from Popes Nicholas IV and Honorius IV to Gerard of Lippens, canon of York and a bishop of Lausanne. The front leaves form a bifolio, of which f. A is glued to the boards (on f. Bv is a 15th century copy of the Offertory Recordare, virgo). The page missing before f. 72 seems to have been lost at the time of the old foliation, since f. 71 v contains only the beginning of a Tractus Laudate domi[num]. The three-part 'Agnus Tro Crimina tollis' appears among other well-known monodic Ordinary Tro. The two-part Kyrie belongs in a later part of the MS following a calendar (f. 142v-143v). This later section contains Office hymns, antiphons, etc. (f. 144-154). Then come some Alleluias, sequences and Kyries, some entirely in brown ink, including the polyphonic Kyrie.

Page missing before f. 72

unmeasured Swiss square notes, with single notes represented by longs; also typically Swiss is the three-note ligature consisting of square notes one above the other joined up by a thin stroke on the right.

generally 9 red four-line staves per page, though the opening pages employ black staves

A foliation in red at t.l-v. seems original and goes to exxiii. Fol. 124-125 is an interpolated 15th century bifolio, after which we return to the original part of the ms, but here there is generally no foliation. In fact, there is an occasional modern pencil numbering at t.r.r.

140v-141, 156

Main initials in red-blue or blue-red and the subsidiary ones in black with yellow ornament. The complete cycles of the Mass Ordinary which begin at f. 130v employ red initials as the main ones.

vellum

RISM B/IV 2: A 14th century vellum ms meas. 391 x 287 mm. and containing 156 folios. This Gradual may have been at the Maigrauge, a convent for Cistercian nuns, from the 14th century, or it could have come from Hauterive, since a fire at the Maigrauge in the 17th century destroyed many original codices. A foliation in red at t.l-v. seems original and goes to exxiii. Fol. 124-125 is an interpolated 15th century bifolio, after which we return to the original part of the ms, but here there is generally no foliation. In fact, there is an occasional modern pencil numbering at t.r.r. 2 Papal bulls are glued at the beg. and end; they are 13th century and are from Popes Nicholas IV and Honorius IV to Gerard of Lippens, canon of York and a bishop of Lausanne. The front leaves form a bifolio, of which f.A is glued to the boards (on f. Bv is a 15th century copy of the Offertory Recordare, virgo). The page missing before f. 72 seems to have been lost at the time of the old foliation, since f. 71 v contains only the beg. of a Tractus Laudate domi[num]. The corpus is written in a large Gothic script with the main initials in red-blue or blue-red and the subsidiary ones in black with yellow ornament. As for the notation, the corpus has the typical unmeasured Swiss square notes of the period with single notes represented by longs. There are generally 9 red four-line staves per page, though the opening pages employ black staves (f. 1-15 v). Also typically Swiss is the three-note ligature consisting of square notes one above the other joined up by a thin stroke on the right. The complete cycles of the Mass Ordinary which begin at f. 130v employ red initials as the main ones. The three-part "Agnus Tro Crimina tollis" appears among other well-known monodic Ordinary Tro. The two-part Kyrie belongs in a later part of the ms following a calendar (f. 142v-143v). This later section contains Office hymns, antiphons, etc. (f. 144-154). Then come some Alleluias, sequences and Kyries, some entirely in brown ink, including the polyphonic Kyrie.

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