But the wheelwright managed to send the boy six florins, and that sum was immediately expended on Fux's Gradus ad Parnassum and Mattheson's Volkommener Capellmeister-heavy, dry treatises both, which have long since gone to the musical antiquary's top shelf among the dust and the cobwebs.
"Haydn"
J. Cuthbert Hadden
I thought at first that it denoted merely difference of subject, and that Gradus, as in the catalogue of Queens' College, Cambridge, was a side of a lectern.
"The Care of Books"
John Willis Clark
The first of these-a Bible in two volumes-is entered in the catalogue of the Priory as A. 1. 2, 3-that is to say it was in distinctio A, Gradus 1, and the volumes stood second and third in the Gradus.
"The Care of Books"
John Willis Clark