Collection ID: 0007 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Antiphonal

Funders

• Council on Library and Information Resources

Call number

Lehigh Codex 24
(Bethlehem, United States, Lehigh University, Special Collections)

Alternate identifiers

• Hirsh: MS Hirsh 24
• Accession: 23459

Publisher

Special Collections

Language

Latin

Origin

Place

Italy

Extent

I+224; 428 x 323 mm bound to 448 x 325 mm

Foliation

Early foliation in ink, upper right recto; fol. 1 missing, fol. 2 unnumbered; fols. 34, 82, 108-109, 121, 159 missing; 201 foliated as 210; 202 skipped in foliation with no leaf missing

Collation

1 (8, -1), 2-4 (8), 5 (8, -2), 6-10 (8), 11 (8, -2), 12-13 (8), 14 (8, -4 -5), 15 (8), 16 (8, -1), 17-19 (8), 20 (8, -7), 21-28 (8), 29 (7, +1)

Support

Parchment

Catchwords

Horizontal catchwords in ink with simple ink decoration, lower center last verso

Binding

Original fifteenth-century binding; leather over wooden board, lower board; right half of upper board is missing and the remnant of the board has only fragments of the leather cover at the tail edge; part of front pastedown is now only attached at the inner edge, like a flyleaf; no leather over spine, thongs and sewing fully visible

Layout

Seven four-line staves ruled in red with square notation and text in black; ruled in faint ink with double vertical bounding lines; written area: 304 x 202 mm

Script

Gothic--rotunda

Provenance

• Acquired by Lehigh University, 1881
   

Keywords

• Antiphonary
• 15th century
• Italian
• Musical notation
• Italy
• Liturgy
• Colophon

Licenses

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Decorations

• fol. 2r — Historiated initial S, Saint Anne in prayer
• fol. 21v — Historiated initial O, Presentation in the Temple
• fol. 51r — Historiated initial S, The Annunciation
• fol. 153r — Historiated initial U, The Apostles
• fol. 175v — Musical notation added in lower margin
• fol. 213v — Historiated initial P, Funeral