Ms. single leaf from an antiphonary; written and illuminated in Prague, Bohemia, ca. 1400-1410.
Decoration: on verso, 1 historiated initial depicting Christ enthroned with angels and donor, with border extensions.
Musical notation: 7 lines of text with staves of 4 lines.
Text: music and text for the office of the first Sunday after the octave of Epiphany.
This leaf, and 16 others, were once part of an antiphonary which was still intact in the early 1920's when it belonged to the abbey of Seitenstetten, in Austria (Benediktinerstift Seitenstetten); later in the 1920's the codex was broken up and the leaves with historiated initials were sold separately by Maggs (13 leaves) and others (4 leaves); all are listed and discussed in Schmidt; in addition to the present leaf, five others have been located; three are in the National Gallery in Washington, D.C. (B-18,753; B-18,755; B-18,756), one is in the Nationalmuseum in Stockholm (cod. N.M.B.1714) and one is in Montreal (L.V. Randall Collection). A seventh, formerly in the Askonas Collection, Vienna, Austria, has been destroyed--Cf. Seventeenth report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1972-1974.