Accession number:
MS M.966
Title:
Antiphonary
Created:
France or Germany, ca. 1200.
Binding:
Old wooden boards, half-leather, stamped and blind-tooled.
Credit:
Purchase, Mary Flagler Cary Music Collection, 1974.
Description:
165 leaves, bound : vellum, ill. ; 342 x 247 mm
Provenance:
M. Lucien Delamarre collection; his sale, Paris, Théophile Belin, May 8, 1909, lot 8, illustrated; André Hachette collection; his sale, Paris, Librairie Giraud-Badin, Dec. 16, 1953, lot 1; Hans P. Kraus.
Notes:
Ms. antiphonary, temporale only, for Cistercian use; written and illuminated in France or Germany, about 1200.
Collation: I8, II8-XX8, XXI5.
Temporale from Advent through the Sundays after Pentecost; an early example of the Bernard revision.
Decoration: written in brown ink; some pricking in gutter; 5 historiated initials with tinted drawings, 21 smaller decorated initials in red, yellow, blue, and green, one of which is unfinished; numerous penwork initials.
The illumination of M.966 is unfinished. 1 smaller decorated initial on fol. 75v has not been completed.
Musical notation: 1 column, 10 staves of 4 red lines with square notation and 10 lines of text.
Scribe: several scribes.
Script:
Gothic script
Language:
Latin
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