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Antiphonary : manuscript, [between 1310 and 1315]

Title
Antiphonary : manuscript, [between 1310 and 1315]

Alternative Title: Antiphonary
Creator / Contributor
Catholic Church
Place of Origin
Italy
Language
Latin
Description
Extent: 1 leaf : vellum ; 56 cm. (1 folder in a box)
print
Abstract
A single leaf containing the beginning of the hymn "In principio fecit Deus celum et terram et creavit in ea hominem", i.e. for Septuagesima Sunday.
Genre
Manuscripts, Medieval-Italy-1300-1350.
Cuttings from manuscripts.
Rules (layout features)
Hairside.
Notes
The text is written in a large gothic rotunda hand, with music on a red 4-line staff. The verso has an initial letter in blue with red pen-work decoration.
The initial letter "I" on the recto, within a foliated part-border, is historiated, showing Christ with a kneeling prophet (?), in gouache and gold leaf with tooling.
For the attribution of the illumination to Neri da Rimini, date, and list of 11 other leaves from the same antiphonary (originally in 2 vols.; this leaf from the temporale) see Palladino, 18-19.
MS Typ 1003. Houghton Library, Harvard University.
The Houghton Library accession number 90M-16 and former Fogg Art Museum accession number 1943.1867 should no longer be used in referring to this item.
Also available in an electronic version.
Series
Digital Medieval Manuscripts at Houghton Library
Repository
Houghton Library, Harvard University

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