Manuscript Cutting
early 15th century (illuminated)
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This is a leaf from an Antiphoner. The Antiphoner contained the choral parts for the cycle of Offices celebrated by a monastic or other community. Its size enabled the whole choir to read the music at once. The decorative initial, such as the initial S on this page, marked significant divisions of the text by making the heading memorable. The initials were added either by the scribe or by a specialist, in spaces left blank by the scribe. The latter was increasingly the practice in the later Middle Ages.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Water-based pigments, gilding and ink on parchment |
| Brief description | Leaf from an Antiphoner; Southern French; early 15th century A duplicate number MS.817 was assigned to this object in error and was subsequently cancelled. |
| Physical description | Specimen of a manuscript |
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| Object history | Purchased from J. and S. Goldschmidt as part of three portfolios (now Museum nos 234-296) designated as a 'Illuminations: a collection of 338 specimens, pages and cuttings' for the total sum of £100.0.0, received on 15 October 1872; passed on for Register in April 1874 (see Register of Drawings). |
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| Summary | This is a leaf from an Antiphoner. The Antiphoner contained the choral parts for the cycle of Offices celebrated by a monastic or other community. Its size enabled the whole choir to read the music at once. The decorative initial, such as the initial S on this page, marked significant divisions of the text by making the heading memorable. The initials were added either by the scribe or by a specialist, in spaces left blank by the scribe. The latter was increasingly the practice in the later Middle Ages. |
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| Accession number | 256:1 |
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| Record created | February 23, 2004 |
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