Extent: fols. 1; parchment; 295 x 208 (215 x 135) mm
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Layout: 2 columns, 13 staves with accompanying text beneath Script: Gothic bookhand Decoration: Enlarged initials in an almost legal/notary style with black and red decoration; red and blue enlarged initials with accompanying penwork flourishing in alternate color. Musical notation on four-line staves in red ink with square neumes. Slightly worn and soiled; occasional light marks and stain, none affecting music; small holes to margins; dark stain to right margin; small blue ink stain to recto, just affecting one letter. Catchword in bottom margin of verso, encompassed by a contemporary doodle with a face and crown. Chants from All Saints' Day and an uncertainly identified martyr, possibly John of Autun (feast 29 October). From J & J Lubrano: "From the Sanctorale of an Antiphoner, containing the chants for the Divine Office. The recto contains chants for a feast of a matrtyr "Jo" that we have been unable to identify. Due to the celebration prior to All Saints' Day, the list of possible candidates narrow greatly; one possibility is John of Autun, whose feast day of October 29 and location in eastern France corresponds with the present manuscript. Very little is known about him, however, and there is no evidence of liturgy in his honor surviving in the Diocese of Autun." From J & J Lubrano: "The presence of three antiphons for the first nocturn of Matins before the responsory indicates secular rather than monastic use."
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