Liturgical manuscript, with noted music
F-yzbj
General Information
Northern littera textualis (s. XV). Descenders of the letters 'h' and 'y' extend far beyond the baseline, finishing with a pointy right-hand stroke.
Antwerp, Rijksarchief te Antwerpen, Verzameling Losse Aanwinsten, nr. 2.34-2.35 are kept together in a map. They are remnants of the same leaf and physically connect (cf. the physical reconstruction photo).
Original Condition
Current Condition
Book Decoration and Musical Notation
Versals (red, blue), rubrics (red)
Hufnagel notation, 8 staves of 4 black lines visible
Host Volume
Host volume unknown. Both parchment strips functioned as guards (fold and sewing holes clearly visible). Remnants of paper (a printed book) adhere to the rectoside of both strips. A small remnant of a printed book is attached to the fold of nr. 2.34. The (small) text is presumably in Dutch and reads as follows:
[...](i)onge all(an)[...]