Illustrated Chant Sheet in Vellum Maria Callas Autographs Rosa Sucher as Isolde

Rosa Sucher as Isolde

a regular at the Metropolitan Opera

shown as Violetta in Verdi's Traviata at the Teatro Colon

English Contralto (1912-1953)

chamber music and piano works

Illustrated Chant Sheet in Vellum Maria Callas Autographs Rosa Sucher as IsoldeA 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