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<p>[QUOTE="Ex Libris, post: 10331399, member: 14916"]This is Gregorian chant indeed called <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neume" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neume" rel="nofollow">neumes</a> and there are a lot of these pages on the market. The ones you show are probably from southern Europe, likely Spain. These music books were used by choirs to sing from. </p><p><br /></p><p>The books where these pages come from are called <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antiphonary" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antiphonary" rel="nofollow">Antiphonal</a> or <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gradual" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gradual" rel="nofollow">Graduale</a>. </p><p><br /></p><p>These books can be <a href="https://www.antiquers.com/threads/size-does-matter-a-huge-roman-gradual-binding.83024/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.antiquers.com/threads/size-does-matter-a-huge-roman-gradual-binding.83024/">huge</a> sometimes.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]519612[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Sometimes these pages were recycled into other purposes (from my collection)</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]519613[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]519614[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Ex Libris, post: 10331399, member: 14916"]This is Gregorian chant indeed called [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neume']neumes[/URL] and there are a lot of these pages on the market. The ones you show are probably from southern Europe, likely Spain. These music books were used by choirs to sing from. The books where these pages come from are called [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antiphonary']Antiphonal[/URL] or [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gradual']Graduale[/URL]. These books can be [URL='https://www.antiquers.com/threads/size-does-matter-a-huge-roman-gradual-binding.83024/']huge[/URL] sometimes. [ATTACH=full]519612[/ATTACH] Sometimes these pages were recycled into other purposes (from my collection) [ATTACH=full]519613[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]519614[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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