Extent: 151 leaves : parchment, color illustrations, music ; 604 x 421 mm bound to 630 x 443 mm
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Ms. codex. Title supplied by cataloger. Collation: Parchment, fol. 151 + i (paper). Script: Gothic. Decoration: 1 illuminated border; 248 illuminated initials; 47 miniatures; illuminator identified as Francesco da Castello (see Overty). Music: Square notation on 4-line red staves. Binding: 15th century leather over wooden boards with corner and center brass bosses and edges, clasps missing, remnant of red wax seal on front cover, vellum label with "G" nailed on back cover; parchment waste pastedowns from another [unidentified] missal. Origin: Identified as "Antiphonal 3", part of a set of lavishly illuminated choir books commissioned for the Benedictine monastery of San Sisto in Piacenza, Italy. Consisting of 14 volumes, and containing graduals and antiphoners necessary for the celebration of the mass and the divine office, the set of was used continuously by the monastery over the next 300 years. In the early 19th century... Shelfmark: Berkeley, CA, The Bancroft Library, UC Berkeley, MS UCB 59. Former shelfmark: Berkeley, CA, The Bancroft Library, UC Berkeley, 2MS M2150 1480.
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