Accession number
MS M.961
Object title
Antiphonary leaf (MS M.961).
Created
Prague, Czech Republic, ca. 1400-1410
Credit line
Purchase, Mary Flagler Cary Music Collection, 1974.
Description
1 leaf : vellum, ill. ; 566 x 395 mm
Provenance
Benediktinerstift Seitenstetten; sold in the 1920's; Dr. and Mrs. Francis Springell; their sale, London, Sotheby's, June 28, 1962, lot 46, pl. opp. 33; Fielding Marshall; London, Maggs, European Miniatures and Illuminations, 8 June 1974, no. 13, pl. opp. 19.
Notes
Ms. single leaf from an antiphonary; written and illuminated in Prague, Bohemia, ca. 1400-1410.
Decoration: on verso, 1 historiated initial depicting Christ enthroned with angels and donor, with border extensions.
Musical notation: 7 lines of text with staves of 4 lines.
Text: music and text for the office of the first Sunday after the octave of Epiphany.
This leaf, and 16 others, were once part of an antiphonary which was still intact in the early 1920's when it belonged to the abbey of Seitenstetten, in Austria (Benediktinerstift Seitenstetten); later in the 1920's the codex was broken up and the leaves with historiated initials were sold separately by Maggs (13 leaves) and others (4 leaves); all are listed and discussed in Schmidt; in addition to the present leaf, five others have been located; three are in the National Gallery in Washington, D.C. (B-18,753; B-18,755; B-18,756), one is in the Nationalmuseum in Stockholm (cod. N.M.B.1714) and one is in Montreal (L.V. Randall Collection). A seventh, formerly in the Askonas Collection, Vienna, Austria, has been destroyed--Cf. Seventeenth report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1972-1974.
Decoration: on verso, 1 historiated initial depicting Christ enthroned with angels and donor, with border extensions.
Musical notation: 7 lines of text with staves of 4 lines.
Text: music and text for the office of the first Sunday after the octave of Epiphany.
This leaf, and 16 others, were once part of an antiphonary which was still intact in the early 1920's when it belonged to the abbey of Seitenstetten, in Austria (Benediktinerstift Seitenstetten); later in the 1920's the codex was broken up and the leaves with historiated initials were sold separately by Maggs (13 leaves) and others (4 leaves); all are listed and discussed in Schmidt; in addition to the present leaf, five others have been located; three are in the National Gallery in Washington, D.C. (B-18,753; B-18,755; B-18,756), one is in the Nationalmuseum in Stockholm (cod. N.M.B.1714) and one is in Montreal (L.V. Randall Collection). A seventh, formerly in the Askonas Collection, Vienna, Austria, has been destroyed--Cf. Seventeenth report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1972-1974.
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textura
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Latin
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