Antiphonary

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Accession number: 
MS M.444
Title: 
Antiphonary
Created: 
Bologna, Italy, 1475-1499.
Credit: 
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), 1909.
Description: 
1 single leaf, matted : ill. ; 234 x 245 mm
Provenance: 
Charles Fairfax Murray; purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) with Murray's collection of old-master drawings in 1909; J.P. Morgan (1867-1943).
Notes: 

Ms. antiphonary single leaf (cutting); written and illuminated in Bologna, Italy, last quarter of the 15th century.
Musical notation: on verso, three 4-line staves drawn in red ink; neumatic notation.
Decoration: 1 historiated initial A (the Resurrection); Italian Renaissance style.
Artist: Domenico Pagliarolo; signed on top of the initial A: Dominicus Bon.

Script: 
textura
Language: 
Latin
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