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Antiphonary single leaf (MS M.702).

Accession number
MS M.702
Object title
Antiphonary single leaf (MS M.702).
Created
Verona, Italy, ca. 1400.
Credit line
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
Century
Classification