Creator

Unknown

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Image Approximate Date

ca. 1325

Creation Date

2015

Source

Accession 1500, Medieval Manuscript Collection

Description

Portable Antiphonal. Single folio on vellum. Eastern France, ca. 1325: 295 x 218 mm, written area 217 x 130 mm. Double column, 13 staves in red. Decoration: staff-high initials in brown ink with red highlights, infilled with delicate foliage designs or grotesque human faces. Four staff-high initials in red or blue with alternating penwork in a style of the fourteenth century. Text: services for three unidentified ferial days (part of Tuesday, all of Wednesday, the beginning of Thursday).

Dimensions

295 x 218 mm, written area 217 x 130 mm

Collection Location

Louise Pettus Archives and Special Collections

Rights

Information concerning copyright must be secured in writing from the Director of the Louise Pettus Archives.

Language

Latin

Identifier

Accession 1500-Med MS 2B

Notes

Ferial--of or relating to a feria. Feria--a weekday of a church calendar on which no feast falls. [Mish, Frederick C., ed. "Feria." Webster's Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary. Springfield, MA: Merriam-Webster, Inc., 1990.]

Keywords

Medieval Music, Religious Music, Antiphonal, Folio, Vellum, Ferial, French Music

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