Extent: 1 leaf : parchment, illustration, music ; 548 x 397 (410 x 270) mm
Note:
Ms. leaf. Title from Kidd. Layout: Written in 10 lines of text and music; ruled in plummet. Script: Written in formal gothic script. Decoration: Responsories have initials in blue with red penwork or red withe browning penwork; versicles have initials in black with red ornament and penwork in leafy forms, one with a human head in profile. Music: Contains staff notation (4 line) Origin: Written in the southern Netherlands, perhaps Maastricht, in the early 16th century. From a parent volume perhaps produced in Maastricht or a town nearby in the Meuse region; present leaf acquired by Harwood Brownell Dyer, of Rochester, NY (1938?); Vassar College: notes in pencil, 'Flanders 1485 AD Limburg. Antiphonal Leaf,' '#164,' '8.00,' and 'Purchased from Howard B. Dryer June 1939.'
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