Accession number
MS G.3
Object title
Antiphonary single leaf (MS. G.3).
Created
France, ca. 1400.
Credit line
Gift of the Trustees of the William S. Glazier Collection, 1984.
Description
1 leaf (7 lines, and 7 lines of musical notation), matted : vellum, ill. ; 457 x 293 mm
Provenance
Otto August Schulz, Leipzig; Robert Forrer, Strasbourg; Rudolf Busch, Mainz; his sale, Frankfurt, Joseph Baer, May 4, 1921, lot 293; purchased in Apr. 1937 from Maggs Brothers Ltd., London for William S. Glazier (1907-1962), New York; deposited in the Pierpont Morgan Library by the Trustees of the William S. Glazier Collection in 1963.
Notes
Single leaf from an antiphonary, Franciscan use; written and illuminated in France, ca. 1400.
Decoration: 1 historiated initial (Christ calling Saints Peter and Andrew, fishing), 1 full border with marginal figures, 1 filigree initial.
Matted.
Decoration: 1 historiated initial (Christ calling Saints Peter and Andrew, fishing), 1 full border with marginal figures, 1 filigree initial.
Matted.
Script
bastarda.
Language
Latin
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