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Antiphonary single leaf (MS M.1091).

Accession number
MS M.1091
Object title
Antiphonary single leaf (MS M.1091).
Display Date
ca. 1500
Created
Milan, Italy, ca. 1500
Credit line
Purchased on the Acquisitions Fund, 1995.
Description
1 leaf (6 4-line staves and 6 lines of antiphon) : vellum, ill. ; 540 x 371 mm
Provenance
Florentine art market, 1986; Martello Collection, Florence (Nereo Fioratti), 1992; H.P. Kraus; purchased from H.P. Kraus on the Acquisition Fund in June, 1995.
Notes
Ms. antiphonary single leaf, perhaps from an antiphonary of the Ambrosian rite; written and illuminated in Italy, perhaps Milan, ca. 1500.
Decoration: 1 large illuminated initial C decorated with motifs of precious stones and imaginative floral representations.
Artist: attributed variously to the workshop of Bergognone, or to that of the Master of the Arcimboldi Missal, the latter subsequently identified with Matteo da Milano by Jonathan Alexander.
Text: music and text for the first of the Rogation Days which are celebrated on the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th days after the Ascension; after the rubric In die primo leteniarum que celbrari debent in feria secunda tertia et quarta post Ascensionem Domini.
Musical notation: 4-line red staves with square notes.
Script
textura
Language
Latin
Century
Classification