Accession number:
MS M.702
Title:
Antiphonary
Created:
Verona, Italy, ca. 1400.
Credit:
Purchased in 1926.
Description:
1 leaf : vellum, ill. ; 488 x 342 mm
Provenance:
Purchased by the Pierpont Morgan Library from Paul Gottschalk (along with the manuscript now known as Pierpont Morgan Library. MS M.701) in Feb. 1926 (Paul Gottschalk, catalogue 8, no. 112, plate 5 (Berlin, 1925) where it is described as from a late 14th century north Italian gradual, showing influence from Bologna and a French school).
Notes:
Ms. single leaf from an antiphonary; possibly written and illuminated in Verona, Italy, ca. 1400.
Text: portion of the Office for the Dead, with the versicle "A porta inferi" of the first nocturn at Matins, through the versicle "quem visurus" following the response to the first lesson.
Musical notation: 4-line staves in red ink with square notes in brown ink.
Decoration: 1 large historiated initial C depicting a bishop blessing with holy water the corpse of a cleric.
Script:
textura
Language:
Latin
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