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Leaf from an Antiphonal
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Parchment, 540 x 340 (365 x 209) mm, 9 lines of text ruled in faint brown ink and 9 lines of music on four-line stave ruled in red.
CONTENTS: Antiphon for the Annunciation, Orietur sicut sol salvator.
DECORATION: Historiated initial [O, 2 ll.] enclosing the Annunciate Virgin, one-sided gold bar and acanthus border with God the Father, the dove of the Holy Spirit, and Gabriel with scroll sketched in plummet; alternate blue and red pen-flourished one-line initials.
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1933) by Henderson, James Stewart
15th Century, third quarter#
Circa
1450
CE
-
Circa
1475
CE
Support
composed of
parchment
Text
Height 365 mm
Width 209 mm
Page
Height 540 mm
Width 340 mm
Accession number: MS 357*
Primary reference Number: 169778
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Manuscripts and Printed Books
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