Antiphoner quires with Office chants for St. Lawrence
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Evanston, IL, Northwestern University, Music Library, MSS 1600 (NW-L3-2)
Paul Feller-Simmons, DACT, 2025 (Born Digital)
Description URL
https://cantusdatabase.org/source/1000262
https://cantusdatabase.org/source/1000262
General Information
Title
Antiphoner quires with Office chants for St. Lawrence
Shelfmarks
Evanston, Northwestern University, Music Library, MSS 1600 (NW-L2-3)
Material
Parchment
Place of Origin
Not recorded (likely Western Europe, perhaps Italy or Spain, c.16th century)
Date of Origin
ca. 1550 (early- to mid-16th century)
Script, Hands
Late Gothic or early italicized book hand.
General Remarks
This single folio was purchased from Philip J. Pirages Fine Books and Manuscripts, seemingly by Northwestern University music librarian Don Roberts.
Book Decoration and Musical Notation
Description
Large alternating red and blue pen-flourished initials mark major chant divisions. Rubrics written in red. Occasional black ink used for initials.
Black square notation on red five-line staves.