Bifolio of a responsorial
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General Information
Script is in imitation of sixteenth/seventeenth-century printed fonts, notably the exaggerated ligatures between st and ct.
This bifolio contains only the cantor's part of the responsories (incipit and verse).
Original Condition
Second half of the bifolio has page numbers 7 and 8 (in Arabic numerals) in the upper corner.
At least one bifolio is missing; given the numbering, presumably was the outer bifolio of an 8-page quire.
Current Condition
The first half of this bifolio has extensive damage to its outer and lower margin (consistent with this being the first folio of its volume). Possibly recovered from a binding.
Book Decoration and Musical Notation
Stenciled red initials taking up the entire line of staff and text at the beginning of each responsory. Smaller red initials for the verses within the text ruling are writen in the same red ink as the rubrics.
Black square notes on a five-line red staff. There are occasional diamond-shaped note heads showing aspects of mensural notation.
History
Library description includes a note: "Presented by Colonel W. G. Scully. Redpath Library, McGill University, April 1944"