Leaf of an antiphonal
F-tfow
Description in part drawn from a longform description by Dionysios Hetzopoulos commissioned by the McGill library ca. 1990.
General Information
Gothica praescissa
The library's description dates this MS to the 18th century, but the scribal hand seems earlier.
Original Condition
Pages numbered 87 and [8]8 in Arabic numerals.
Current Condition
Outer margin slightly trimmed
Book Decoration and Musical Notation
McGill Catalog description gives the decoration as:
"Decoration: verso left border and part of bottom border elaborately decorated with interwoven curvilinear botanical designs in red, blue, green, brown and yellow inks ; top border decoration includes 2 images of "the shoot of Jesse" from which stems and flowers emanate ; verso chant begins with a large ornamental initial B, drawn with blue, red, green and brown inks, and whose decorations include several "shoot of Jesse" motifs"
Square notation on a five-line red staff. Chants for Nativity of Mary (Sept. 8).
History
From McGill's catalog: "Presented by Lady Roddick, 1945. Purchased from Dawson’s Book Shop.(Montreal)"