Extent: ff. ii + 133 + f. 120 bis + ii : parchment ; 225 x 309 mm
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Antiphonal written in Germany in the middle of the fifteenth century. Span folios: ff. 1-133v + f. 120r-v bis. Support: Parchment. Layout: 1-148 158(+8, f. 120) 168 176(-6). Catchword in a noting hand in the inner margin of f. 8v. Ruled space, 253 x 175 mm; 10 lines of text and music. Double vertical bounding lines in red ink, a single bounding line full across the bottom; the upper line of the top staff forms the top boundary line of the written space. Slash... Music: Music on 4-line staves. Foliation in early form arabic numerals, except for 100, designated as "C"; hymns and verses numbered in arabic numerals in the margins; marginalia, including on f. 58v, "Maria mutter königin mutter der bahrmhertzigkeit." 17th century running titles added. f. 120 bis is a small tipped-in leaf. Decoration: On f. 1, opening initial for Advent, 45 × 55 mm., in blue with simple void pattern and red flourishing; secondary initials in plain red or as cadels in the ink of the text filled in red. Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 12/13/2009. In the lower margin of f. 1, the stamp "G.W.B.D." of Hugo, Graf von Waldbott-Bassenheim (1820-95) who acquired many manuscripts from the Carthusians of Buxheim; his sale, Munich, 20 September 1883, n. 2381 (German sale catalogue slip affixed to the front pastedown). Synder collection. Date and source of acquisition by Henry E. Huntington unknown.
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