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Antiphonary single leaf.

Accession number
MS M.878
Object title
Antiphonary single leaf.
Display Date
ca. 1420.
Created
Vienna, Austria, ca. 1420.
Credit line
Purchased in 1956.
Description
1 leaf, matted : vellum, ill. ; 90 x 90 mm
Provenance
Purchased from H.P. Kraus, September 1956.
Notes
Ms. antiphonary leaf (cutting); written and illuminated in Austria, Vienna, ca. 1420.
Text on verso: the letters i tu' tu, part of the antiphon at the Benedictus of Lauds in the liturgy of the Pentecost; i.e. [Accipite spiritum sanctum quorum reminiscentes peccata rem]itu[n]tu[r].
Decoration: 1 historiated initial S[piritus] with depiction of the Pentecost.
Artist: attributed by Otto Pächt and Gerhard Schmidt to the Albrechts Miniator (Master of the Prayerbook of Albrecht V).
Musical notation: two 4-line staves on verso with square notes.
Script
textura
Language
Latin
Century
Classification