A single leaf fragment on parchment, c. 493 x 346 mm, with a geometric six line initial in black ink to the verso.
Ruled in lead point, c. 457 x 275 mm (visible), with music in square notation on five-line staves ruled in red with lyrics in black ink in prescissa script and rubrics in red.
The six letter initial on the verso opens the text for the cantus, ‘Per totam Judaem insania ferebatur ut Christi me[m]bra laniaret in te[rris]’, (’Throughout all of Judea, madness spread to tear the members of Christ to pieces on the ground’). A good example of a large antiphonal leaf, the margins have been cropped with a corner tear, some offsetting, there is rubbing to the text, and some water damage.
Single Leaf From An Antiphonary, In Latin, Manuscript On Parchment
Author
[Spanish Scribe]
Publisher
[Spain]
Date
[Sixteenth Century]
