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5.1. Sample Transcription - Complete

of the verse "Dextera domini fecit virtutem" for the gradual "Haec dies," as found in the Sarum gradual (ca. 1275), London, British Library, add. 12194, fol. 25r.

Source image [size 136kB].
Context image [size 183kB].
The visualization of the NEUMES transcription of this chant.

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      D.L., 21 June 2006:
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      <incipit content="Dextera domini fecit virtutem"/>
      <siglum content="GB-Lbm add. 12194"/>
      <location content="f 25r"/>
        <rite group="GREG"/>
      <occasion celebration="Fer. 4 p. Pascha"/>
      <service group="Mass"/>
      <genre_x group="Gr" subgroup="GrV" xsi:type="graduale_Type"/>
      <cao content="8414d"/>
      <concordance content="S"/>
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  <content_link content="CANTUS record"
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  <bibliographic_reference description="Cf., Liber Usualis (1934) p.793-4"/>
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  <transcription_title content='Verse of the Gradual "Haec dies" when sung on Wednesday of Easter week'/>
  <transcription_chronicle>
    <transcription_log>
      <project
        project_name="The NEUMES Project"
        project_description="Funded by The Eduserv Foundation; Peter G. Jeavons, Principal Investigator."/>

      <transcription_statement>
        <transcriber content="Jacqueline Elemans"/>
        <transcription_date content="24 January 2003"/>
        <version_identifier nr="0.1b" description="Complete verse transcription in the 2003 data format"/>
      </transcription_statement>

      <transcription_statement>
        <transcriber content="Jacqueline Elemans"/>
        <transcription_date content="26 August 2005"/>
        <edition_comments content="update in the new format of the earlier transcription"/>
      </transcription_statement>

      <transcription_statement>
        <transcriber content="Debra Lacoste"/>
        <transcription_date content="21 June 2006"/>
        <edition_comments content="update of the earlier transcription by J.E."/>
        <copyright_statement content='Copyright © 2006, The University of Oxford'/>
      </transcription_statement>
    </transcription_log>
  </transcription_chronicle>

  <edited_text content="(Haec dies,) Dextera Domini fecit virtutem, dextera Domini exaltavit me."/>

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     <neume>&STA;&pes;&ton_a;&up_M2;&LIG;&ton_c;&up_m3;&END;</neume>
     <neume>&STA;&punctum;&ton_h;&dn_m2;&END;</neume>
     <neume>&STA;&punctum;&subst5;&ton_G;&dn_M3;&END;</neume>
     <neume>&STA;&pes;&ton_a;&up_M2;&LIG;&ton_c;&up_m3;&END;</neume>
     <neume>&STA;&pes;&ton_h;&dn_m2;&LIG;&ton_d;&up_m3;&END;</neume>
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     <neume>&STA;&pes;&ton_c;&up_m2;&LIG;&ton_d;&up_M2;&END;</neume>
     <neume>&STA;&pes;&ton_G;&dn_5;&LIG;&ton_a;&up_M2;&END;</neume>
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     <neume>&STA;&virga;&ton_c;&EQ;&END;</neume>
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