Manuscript on parchment of a portion of a single leaf intended to represent a fragment of a large noted service book. On the recto, historiated initial and beginning of a hymn. Verso blank. The fragment is an imitation of a 15th-century antiphonal (?): each word is a unit, not stretched to fit the rhythm of the chant; the colors are inaccurate and unmodulated; the gold is applied in too high relief; the insect in the margin is an anachronistic insertion; there is no text on the verso; and the parchment has been varnished
Description:
In Latin., Script: Written in round liturgical gothic., and Both the letters and the notes (square, on 4-line red staves) appear to have been written first in pale black ink or lead, then traced in opaque black ink. One initial, a poor imitation of the type found in Tuscan antiphonals of the early fifteenth century; Pentecost, with orange, blue, green and pink acanthus against gold, thickly edged in black, hair-spray, gold dots and one insect in margin.
