Leaf from a Breviary, Fragment

Type: Fragment

Date: 16th century

Setting: Church

Produced By/For: [unknown]

Contents: Liturgical: Breviary

Shelf Mark: Fragm.Lat.18

Location: Drawer 5A/08 (Acc. 1992-045, Item #10)

Description

From the Medieval Palaeography Collection

Breviary, Spain, c.1550-1600

• 440 x 280mm, on paper, in Latin
• with musical notation
• apparatus and staves in red
• musical neumes on four staves
• two decorated penwork initials in red and in black and red

Poster

Transcription and musical interpretation by Alina Blank with musical assistance by Katie Blank, completed as part of course work for an undergraduate Manuscripts Studies class with Dr. Adrienne Williams Boyarin (English), available here.

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