Antiphonary

Accession number: 
MS M.878
Title: 
Antiphonary
Created: 
Vienna, Austria, ca. 1420.
Credit: 
Purchased in 1956.
Description: 
1 leaf, matted : vellum, ill. ; 90 x 90 mm
Provenance: 
Purchased from H.P. Kraus, September 1956.
Notes: 

Ms. antiphonary leaf (cutting); written and illuminated in Austria, Vienna, ca. 1420.
Text on verso: the letters i tu' tu, part of the antiphon at the Benedictus of Lauds in the liturgy of the Pentecost; i.e. [Accipite spiritum sanctum quorum reminiscentes peccata rem]itu[n]tu[r].
Decoration: 1 historiated initial S[piritus] with depiction of the Pentecost.
Artist: attributed by Otto Pächt and Gerhard Schmidt to the Albrechts Miniator (Master of the Prayerbook of Albrecht V).
Musical notation: two 4-line staves on verso with square notes.

Script: 
textura
Language: 
Latin
Century: 
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