Antiphonarium

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Utopia, armarium codicum bibliophilorum

General Information

Title Antiphonarium
Material Parchment
Place of Origin Spain
General Remarks

Music for an antiphon, likely for the fifth week of Lent, followed by text from psalm 118/119. 

Original Condition

Height of Written Area 482 – 483 mm
Width of Written Area 279 – 280 mm
Number of Columns 1
Numbering

Numbered "48" in upper right.

Current Condition

Dimensions 560 x 394 mm

Book Decoration and Musical Notation

Description

A somewhat calligraphic red M sets off the psalm incipit; verses of the canticle have rather plain red initials. A red cross marks verse divisions.

  • Musical Notation

    Square notation on a 5-line red staff; maximally five staves per page. F-clef formed of three lozenges. Faint lines of division and one flat are present. Custodes with upward tails just outside the right hand margin line.