A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Tractulus

by William Smyth Rockstro

TRACTULUS. I. A kind of Neuma, used before the completion of the Stave. [See Neuma].

II. The Guidon, or Sign, used at the end of a Stave, to indicate the note with which the next Stave begins. (In English it is called a Direct.)

[ W. S. R. ]