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Antiphonary single leaf (MS M.1090).

Accession number
MS M.1090
Object title
Antiphonary single leaf (MS M.1090).
Display Date
ca. 1500.
Created
Milan, Italy, ca. 1500.
Credit line
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
Century
Classification