Saint Louis University, VFL MS 031

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS10036

Shelfmark:

VFL MS 031

Title:

Antiphonary, imperfect

Author:

Catholic Church

Catholic Church WIKIDATA

Place:

Spain

Spain TGN

Date:

ca. 1550

sixteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 59 leaves : parchment ; 348 x 262 mm.

Former Owner(s):

Dauphinais, Sarah

Sarah Dauphinais WIKIDATA

Note:

Ms. codex.
Added text: Recto of free-end flyleaf at end of book continues with text and music in a cursive hand. On back pastedown the note: "Ay dulse jesus y maria corason."
Layout: Written in 7 long lines with red line-fillers and 5-line red staves with C and F clefs and square notation.
Script: Iberian textualis.
Decoration: Three 6-line puzzle initials in blue and red (fols. 10r, 12r, 27r), with long delicate flourishes in violet and red extending the length of the column; 6-line penwork initials alternate red and blue, flourished and infilled in violet and red respectively; infilling often composed in the typical Mudejar design; 6-line calligraphic initials in dark brown ink, touched in yellow wash...
Binding: Bound in balled leather over boards; single clasp (missing).
Origin: Written and decorated in Spain in the mid-16th century.
Executed for a convent: on fols. 38r-39r, instructions are given for the manner in which "sorores" are to stand and chant the Kyrie during the Tridium. Gift of Sarah Dauphinais, 2001.
Shelfmark: St. Louis, Saint Louis University, Pius XII Memorial Library, VFL MS 031.

Keyword:

illuminated manuscripts

decorated initials

Leather bindings

Gothic scripts

Gregorian chants

Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)

Antiphonaries

Catholic Church

Institutional Record:

https://libcat.slu.edu/record=b1977527

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/3/images_VFLMS031_44/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

Saint Louis University