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Antiphoner quires with Office chants for St. Lawrence – Fragment

Parchment · Two quires comprising 18 folia (9 vellum bifolia) · 1501 – 1550 CE

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Evanston, IL, Northwestern University, Music Library, MSS 1600 (NW-L3-2), ff.16r–32v; f.34v-r
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Two partial quires from an antiphoner containing the Office for St. Lawrence (Vespers, Matins, Lauds), written in a post-Gothic italic hand with rubrication and large red and blue initials, some with black pen-flourishing. Music is in black square notation on red five-line staves. Contemporary notes (1937) already identified the contents and suggested an early 16th-century date. Later provenance links the fragment to Alta Verapaz (Guatemala) before donation to Northwestern in 2016. The surviving sequence is foliated 16–34 with one folio missing (f.33).

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Paul Feller-Simmons
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