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New York, Columbia University, Barnard College Library
MS 1
 
 Description:  —  pp. 308  —  Quarter bound in leather over wooden boards in modern times but retaining some medieval furniture; rebacked.  —  Given to Barnard College in 1923 by Mary E. Larkin Joline (d. 1926).
 Number of Parts: 1  —  Number of Images Available: 11
 
 
 

Part  1: pp. 1-308

 
Description:  — Parchment  — 551 x 384  — 7 lines of text and music.
Country: ItalyCardinal point: central
Region: TuscanyCity: Siena?
Assigned Date: s. XIVmed Searchable Date Range: 1340-1360
Dated by scribe: NoInscribed Date:
Document: NoNumber of Scribes:
Script: Formal gothic liturgical book hand.
Music: Square notation on 4-line red staves.
Artist: Niccolò di ser Sozzo, attributed to
Figurative Decoration: Four historiated initials.
Other Decoration: Painted and flourished initials.
Number of Texts:  1
 
 
 
Text 1 of 1: pp. 1-308
 
Title: Antiphonal
Language(s): Latin
Notes: Contains the common of saints, and the feasts of Corpus Christi, the translation of Francis (25 May), and Anthony of Padua (13 June).
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  • p. 84. Painted initial.
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  • p. 107. Red and blue of flourished initials, as well as red of rubrics and staves, have held well; black ink of text, especially in areas of stress in lower right, has flaked off (flesh side).
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  • p. 114. Hierarchy of initials (with first response at matins ranking a 2-line painted initial); catchword in center lower margin.
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  • p. 132. Several lines of rubrics with text incipits in black.
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  • p. 140. Letter "I" occupying, as usual, a longer space than other initials of its rank (first response at matins).
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  • p. 189. Consecration of the Host.
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  • p. 211. Death of Francis; wear in historiated initial along the lines of the staves.
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  • p. 220. Stigmata of Francis, as Brother Leo watches.
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  • p. 253. Anthony holding book; red roman numeral "I" in outer margin to count this as the first of the nine responses.
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  • p. 277. Six settings of "Benedicamus domino" with parts of the fifth rewritten.
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  • p. 302. Part of music and text erased and rewritten, the latter in a highly stylized very late gothic script.
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