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Leaf from an Antiphonal
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Parchment, 450 x 310 (345 x 209) mm, 10 lines of text ruled in faint brown ink and 10 four-line musical staves ruled in red ink.
CONTENTS: Antiphon for the Nativity of the Virgin, Hec est regina virginum.
DECORATION: Historiated initial [H, 2 ll.] formed of gold acanthus on blue ground, Virgin and Child in enclosed garden venerated by two brothers of the Order of the Holy Cross, bar-border with foliage and acanthus extensions, a putto, tournament scene, and bird with scroll inscribed ‘gelr hogen moit’.
ORNAMENTATION: Alternate red and blue one-line penwork initials.
History note: Made for a house of the Order of the Holy Cross, probably St Cornelius at Roermond, Limburg; MS 205 in the Museum by 1895; MS 275 purchased from Bernard Quaritch by the Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum in 1911.
Method of acquisition: Bought (1911) by Quaritch, Bernard
16th Century, Early#
Circa
1510
CE
-
Circa
1520
CE
Support
composed of
parchment
Text
Height 345 mm
Width 209 mm
Page
Height 450 mm
Width 310 mm
Accession number: MS 205
Primary reference Number: 169750
Project ID: 94
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Manuscripts and Printed Books
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