Durham University Library Archives & Special Collections Catalogue
Two separate leaves from an Italian antiphoner
Parchment
No pricking visible. Ruled in pale grey. Written space 270 x 198-200 mm. 16 lines of writing, with a line left blank between each.
Written in a roundish textura, proficiently, with minims 8 mm high.
Decoration: text capitals washed with yellow. Blue paraphs to rubrics for days.
Initials: (i) to stanzas, a little over 1-line, dark blue with red vertical lines and circles, or, alternately, red with pale blue vertical lines and circles; (ii) to hymns, 1-line + both adjoining blank lines, dark blue with red infilling and flourishing touched with blue and with areas filled with metallic buff, or, alternately, red with pale blue infilling and flourishing touched with red and areas similarly filled.
Written in Italy, mid 15th century.
No bookseller's markings.
Deposited with Durham University Library in 1984 by Dr. George Ball Elliott (1918-1994).
Hymns, Pentecost (Repertorium Hymnologicum, 21204, 9215 and 2339)
Hymns, Cathedra S. Petri (Repertorium Hymnologicum, 16918 and 9196) and In festivitatibus angelorum (Repertorium Hymnologicum, 3000 and 20455)
Chevalier, U., Repertorium hymnologicum: Catalogue de chants, hymnes, proses, sequences, tropes en usage dans l'église latine depuis les origines jusqu'à nos jours, (Louvain: Imprimerie Lefever, 1892-1920)