拍品 25
  • 25

MAGNIFICAT ANTIPHONARY, IN LATIN [IBERIA OR THE AMERICAS?, 17TH? CENTURY]

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1,000 - 1,500 GBP
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描述

  • ink on paper and leather
c.360x260mm, vellum, 157 leaves, quire-size irregular, but apparently COMPLETE, foliated in ink with ‘90’ repeated, written with 5 lines of text and music in square notation on four-line red staves, rastrum c.37mm, EACH ANTIPHON BEGINNING WITH A LARGE CALLIGRAPHIC OR PAINTED INITIAL, corner of f.2 torn away, corner of f.47 torn, initial excised from f.25, bound in thick wood boards covered with leather and with metal plates nailed along each side

拍品資料及來源

TEXT Post-medieval Choirbooks can be hard to date and localise, but this example is of the type used in the Iberian peninsula and in Spanish missions abroad.

Magnificat antiphons, with responsories, versicles, and Psalms, for the year from the Saturday before the first Sunday of Advent, to the 24th Sunday after Pentecost, from ‘Ecce nomen domini …’ to ‘Amen dico vobis …’.