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Antiphonary single leaf (MS. G.3).

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.
Script
bastarda.
Language
Latin
Century
Classification