Illustrated Chant Sheet in Vellum Maria Callas Autographs August 5th

August 5th

most of her career was centered at the Opera Comique and the Opera de Paris

Alexandre Gavriloff

a regular at the Metropolitan Opera

Illustrated Chant Sheet in Vellum Maria Callas Autographs August 5thA nicely illuminated page from a 14th century gradual, a book of chants for the mass. Red, blue, and black ink on vellum, using five line staves. Size is 9. 75 x 13. 75 inches, some stains, in overall very good condition. From the very end of the Proper of the Saints, beginning with lines from the end of the mass of St. Cecilia (Nov. 22) and continuing with the feast of Pope St. Clemennt (Nov. 23), Introit (with decorated letter) "Dicit dominus