Accession number:
MS M.786a
Title:
Antiphonary
Created:
England, 15th cent.
Binding:
Music and text bound in morocco, blind-tooled, with two clasps, by Léon Gruel; miniatures are matted.
Credit:
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.
Description:
114 leaves (7-8 lines of text) : vellum, ill. ; 305 x 235 mm
Provenance:
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) from Giuseppe Martini, New York, in 1909; J.P. Morgan (1867-1943).
Notes:
Ms. antiphonary; written in the 15th century, possibly in England; illumination added in the late 19th or early 20th century.
The text of the antiphonary is incomplete--Cf. The Spanish Forger, 1978.
Musical notation: 4-line staves in red ink; square notes.
Decoration: 11 large miniatures, 16 historiated and 3 illuminated initials.
Artist: Spanish Forger.
Script:
textura
Language:
Latin
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