Music as Divine Order
Read MoreThis richly decorated page (fo. 118r) contains words and music for the feast of the Holy Trinity (the next day) beginning with the introit, Benedicta sit. Whereas in the foundation charter of King Henry VI reference is made to the honour of God, the Blessed Virgin Mary, St Margaret and St Bernard, in Queen Margaret’s almost identical charter, the college is erected ‘in nomine Sancte et Individue Trinitatis, Patris Filii et Spiritus Sancti, et gloriose virginis Marie sancteque Margarete et sancti Bernardi’. Her specific emphasis on God as Holy Trinity makes this opening particularly fitting as confirmation that this volume may indeed have been in use at pre-Reformation Queens'.
Title: Gradual for the use of Sarum (15th century)
Shelfmark: Queens' College MS 28
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