Antiphonal

Description

Title: Antiphonal
Published / Created: [between 1300 and 1350]
Publication Place: Italy
Abstract: Manuscript on parchment
Description: In Latin.
Script: Written in two sizes of round liturgical gothic script by several scribes: Scribe 1, ff. 1r-235r; Scribe 2, f. 235r-v, and Scribe 3, ff. 236r-245v.
Three fine historiated initials, 4- to 2-line, shaded pink and/or green, with blue, yellow, green and orange foliage and knots, with gold dots and orange frame; figures against blue ground. 3- to 2-line calligraphic initials, divided, red and blue with red penwork, with blue and red penwork flourishes. 1-line initials red or blue with blue or red penwork, sometimes with black and green; some initials with guide-letters in outer margin. 1-line initials with yellow. Square notes on 4-line red staves. Rubrics throughout, with notes to rubricator in margins. One very crude 4-line initial (s. xvii) on f. 1r, in red, yellow, blue, green and purple.
Binding: Eighteenth century. Rebound in brown cowhide (?), blind-tooled, with numerous metal bosses. Pastedowns from the same 17th-century antiphonary used as flyleaves.
Provenance: Bought in 1933 from Stonehill's by Thomas E. Marston; his gift to Yale in 1953.
Extent: ff. ii + 245 + ii : 512 x 355 (480 x 245) mm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been partially digitized.
Language: Latin

Genre: Manuscripts, Medieval Italy 14th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Material: parchment ;
Resource Type: unspecified
Subject (Geographic): Connecticut
New Haven.
Subject (Name): Catholic Church
Subject (Topic): Liturgy
Antiphonaries
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscripts, Medieval
Subjects: Catholic Church > Liturgy
Antiphonaries
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Italy > 14th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library

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Citation: Antiphonal. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.