Vellum Choir Book Fragment
F-7ooj
General Information
Original Condition
Current Condition
Fragment had previously been used as binding material resulting in paper adhered to the recto. The Fragment has been folded in half and there are tears and parts missing from the top corners. The verso is in better condition than the recto.
Book Decoration and Musical Notation
Square notation in brown-black ink on red 4-line staffs with F and C clefs.
Content
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Content Item
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Content Description
Fragment contains Alleluia and sequence for the feast of St Anne.
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Content Description
History
A description from the bookseller states it may derive from the low countries, and was created mid fifteenth century.
Purchased May 15, 2023 from Chancery Hill Books and Antiques by the DRAGEN Lab at St. Jerome's University College, affiliated with the University of Waterloo.
The included description says that a seventeenth- or eighteenth-century hand has written "Rapports II" in the spine area of the recycled binding, which suggesting a date of recycling.