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Accession number:

MS M.1090

Title:

Antiphonary

Created:

Milan, Italy, ca. 1500.

Credit:

Purchased in 1995.

Description:

1 leaf (4-line staves), matted : vellum, ill. ; 172 x 168 mm

Provenance:

Olivetan monastery of SS. Michele e Niccolò at Villanova-Sillaro (near Lodi); Abate Luigi Celotti (sold Christie's London, 26 May 1825, lot 15); Mrs. John B. Northrop, Cold Spring Harbor, NY; purchased from Mrs. Northrop on the Acquistions Fund 31 May 1995.

Notes:

Ms. antiphonary single leaf (cutting); written and illuminated in Italy, probably Milan, ca. 1500.
Decoration: 1 historiated initial I(ste sunt dies) for the first Matins response for Passion Sunday, depicting Christ about to be stoned by townsmen at the threshold of a synagogue; Italian Renaissance style.
Text: on verso: Die si vocem Domini Nolite o; the historiated initial I(ste sunt dies) opens the first Matins response for Passion Sunday.
M.1090, cut from an antiphonary and M.725, cut from a gradual, probably come from the same set of choir books commissioned for the Olivetan monastery of SS Michele e Niccolò at Vilanova-Silaro (near Lodi).
Musical notation: 4-line red staves, square notes.
Artist: Master B. F., sometimes identified as Francesco Binasco.

Script:

textura

Language:

Latin

Resources:

Description/Bibliography

Century:

15th century

Genres:

Antiphonaries

Historiated initials

Illuminated manuscripts