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Antiphonary (MS M.786a).

Accession number
MS M.786a
Object title
Antiphonary (MS M.786a).
Created
England, 15th century
Binding
Music and text bound in morocco, blind-tooled, with two clasps, by Léon Gruel; miniatures are matted.
Credit line
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
Classification