This large Antiphonal was produced around 1500 in Spain. It retains its original covers, complete with tooled leather, central and corner bosses, and corner pieces.
Support: Parchment; Extent: i+205+i; 498 x 354 mm bound to 530 x 420 mm; Foliation: Modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto; early foliation in ink using Roman numerals, with some numbers skipped, upper right corner; Collation: 1 (11, +11), 2 (6), 3 (6, -2), 4 (6), 5-21 (10), 22 (7, +7); Catchwords: Horizontal catchwords in lower margin at folios: 10v; 28v, 38v, 48v, 58v, 68v, 78v, 88v, 98v, 108v, 118v, 128v; vertical catchwords in lower inner margin at folios: 138v, 148v, 158v, 168v, 178v, 188v, 198v
Musical notation on red, four-line staves; seven staves, with accompanying text, to a page; ruled in grey ink; written area: 363 x 272 mm
Gothic--rotunda
Alternating blue and red penwork initials heightened in purple and red; small pen-flourished initials, alternating blue and red
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One singleton missing between folios 10 and 11; one leaf missing between folios 18 and 19
Folio 205 consists of a seventeenth- or eighteenth-century noted chant and five fragments of a glossed fourteenth-century legal text pasted onto cardboard
Spain
Circa 1500
Original wooden boards and diamond pattern tooled leather with metal bosses and corner pieces; leather clasps
Latin
According to bookplate on inside front cover, manuscript was presented by "Dr. Wickersham"
Spain
Circa 1500
Latin
According to bookplate on inside front cover, manuscript was presented by "Dr. Wickersham"
This large Antiphonal was produced around 1500 in Spain. It retains its original covers, complete with tooled leather, central and corner bosses, and corner pieces.
One singleton missing between folios 10 and 11; one leaf missing between folios 18 and 19
Folio 205 consists of a seventeenth- or eighteenth-century noted chant and five fragments of a glossed fourteenth-century legal text pasted onto cardboard
Gothic--rotunda
Alternating blue and red penwork initials heightened in purple and red; small pen-flourished initials, alternating blue and red
For a full list of Decorations in this manuscript please see the Content and Decorations section by clicking on the [i] button in the top left corner of the image viewer above.
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