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- noun Plural form of
gradual .
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Examples
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There was at this point a choice between two different graduals, one with a text from the Gospel of Saint John (11, 47-49; 50 and 53), the other from Saint Matthew (26, 39 and 41).
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By Advent you could be singing introits, graduals, communions and your services will be sought be other parishes in town.
Why Train to Sing? 2009
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Such images were included in the Nuremberg and Zurich graduals, as well as other Dominican manuscripts, like the Nuremberg Psalter. 143
Sensual Encounters: Monastic Women and Spirituality in Medieval Germany 2008
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The jar appears in other female Dominican images of Mary Magdalen as well, chiefly in the two resurrection miniatures in the illuminated Unterlinden graduals of the fourteenth century.
Sensual Encounters: Monastic Women and Spirituality in Medieval Germany 2008
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The similarity between the two graduals, with an identical program of illuminations, may indicate that they were intended to be a set, one used by each side of the choir.
Sensual Encounters: Monastic Women and Spirituality in Medieval Germany 2008
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The manuscript diversification of 1300 also saw the proliferation of special office books for processions and essential rituals. 109 Among the broader survey of manuscripts (Table 4), there are as many processionals as there are graduals, antiphons, and diurnals together, 21 out of 76 or 27.6 percent. 110 However, from the six core houses, these types of manuscripts represent only 14 percent of the total.
Sensual Encounters: Monastic Women and Spirituality in Medieval Germany 2008
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The saint is the only one to receive his own miniature in the two fourteenth-century illuminated graduals from Unterlinden.
Sensual Encounters: Monastic Women and Spirituality in Medieval Germany 2008
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The introit for the first Sunday in Advent, Ad te levavi, was usually one of the most elaborately decorated as this introit opened the Temporale and hence the gradual proper. 99 None of the graduals of German Dominican women were decorated with miniatures, only decorated or historiated initials.
Sensual Encounters: Monastic Women and Spirituality in Medieval Germany 2008
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Note 9: This image occurs in both of the house's illuminated graduals.
Sensual Encounters: Monastic Women and Spirituality in Medieval Germany 2008
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In the similar pair of Unterlinden graduals there are six historiated and illuminated initials each, all marking the same liturgical passages. 100 A third gradual from that house has no such initials, although it mirrors the other two manuscripts in all other respects. 101 Instead, more simplified decorated initials mark important passages in the text.
Sensual Encounters: Monastic Women and Spirituality in Medieval Germany 2008
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