Ms. leaf. Bibliographic record created by BPL staff based on description by Dr. Lisa Fagin Davis. Script: Written in a gothic rotunda in black ink with red rubrics. Layout: 1 column, 7 staves. No visible ruling. Square Gregorian notation on a five-line red staff. Decoration: On the verso, a four-staff high golden floriate initial on blue with gold foliate highlights, historiated with the Betrayal: Christ in a crowd of Roman soldiers, Judas embracing him; at the left, Peter holds a sword above the prone Malchus. Full border in similar color scheme with trompe-l'oeuil effects, a suderium on a golden shield in the center of the upper, right and left... Binding: Housed in an oversize manila folder. Origin: Written in Flanders in the late 15th century. Immediate source of acquisition: Acquired in 1957 from Sandbergs Bokhandel, Stockholm, their label in the upper margin of the recto. Call number: MS pb Med.186. Former call number: BPL MS 1612.
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