Leaf from an antiphonal and gradual

F-s7b0

Montreal, McGill Library Rare Books and Special Collections, MS Medieval 0092

Remarks by the Editor

Description draws from the library's description by Dionysios Hetzopoulos ca. 1990. 

General Information

Title Leaf from an antiphoner
Shelfmarks MS 0092
Material Parchment
Script, Hands

Southern textualis with aspects of Gothica Praescissa 

General Remarks

The two sides of the folio are discontinuous. The folio is filed under MS 0092 with a second leaf which belongs to a different book; see https://fragmentarium.ms/overview/F-ofjh

Original Condition

Page Height at least 710 mm
Page Width at least 500 mm
Number of Columns 1
Number of Lines at least 5
Numbering

Folio 64 on one side

More about the Condition

The two sides of this leaf contain completely unrelated material for different services on different feasts. Likely one side represents a second layer of writing and reuse.

Current Condition

Dimensions 710 x 500 mm

Book Decoration and Musical Notation

Description

From the library description: "a large interlaced initial E (Etenim) in brown ink ; unnumbered folio recto: chant text begins with a very large red (Q), on light-beige square ground, bordered by a light-blue margin, 017 mm wide. The ground and the initial contain floral and leafy decorations in green, red and blue."

  • Musical Notation

    Square notation on five line red staves. Upward custodes; thin grey lines of division.