The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, mssHM 31544

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS9694

Shelfmark:

mssHM 31544

Title:

Fragment from a choir book

Place:

Germany

Germany TGN

Date:

15th century

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: ff. 2 : parchment ; 340 x 500 mm

Note:

Title supplied by cataloger.
Bifolium from a choir book written in Germany in the fifteenth century.
Span folios: ff. 1-2v. Support: Parchment. Layout: One bifolium, with string still running down the gutter. Ruled space, 390 x 254 mm; 12 lines of text and music; sets of double prick marks along both inner margins correspond to the heights of the minims of the text, suggesting ruling not presently visible; above and below the text, ruling in red ink with the upper and lower bounding lines...
Decoration: Initials, the height of the text and music (except for a letter "I" along the outer margin of the first leaf verso, 240 mm.) in blue with red void penwork infilling often in leaf designs, or with the colors reversed, or as strapwork with red pen designs; rubrics in red.
Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 12/13/2009.
Given to the Huntington Library by James D. Hague in 1971.

Keyword:

manuscripts (documents)

musical notation

Music

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1861920

IIIF Manifest:

https://cdm16003.contentdm.oclc.org/iiif/p15150coll7:52912/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens