Manuscript fragment on parchment of a noted missal containing the Prefaces of the Mass
Description:
In Latin., Script: written in gothic script (littera textualis formata)., and Decoration: four 2-line initials in light brown, outlined in black and highlighted with gold penwork on square grounds of blue, green, or red; the grounds are split diagonally with a dark shade of color on one side and a lighter and a lighter shade on the other; the edges of the side with the dark color are outlined in gold; 1-line capitals are in black and highlighted in red; rubrics written in red in the same script as the text; traces of guide letters for the rubricator preserved in the margins; punctuated with the punctus; hyphenation in the same ink as the text; the prefaces have musical notation in black ink on 3-line staves in red.
Manuscript on parchment of Kyrie, Gloria, Credo, Sanctus, Agnus Dei, and other liturgical texts, with motets by Josquin des Pres added at a later date
Description:
In Latin., Script: original text and additions copied in extremely large Southern (Spanish) Gothica Textualis Formata (Textus Praescissus), with music notation in nota quadrata., Richly decorated with red rubrics and painted initials., and Binding: s. XVI: undecorated brown leather over heavy wooden boards, sewn on four double cords. On both covers four large engraved brass corner pieces and more centrally five smaller engraved brass bosses. The leather damaged and several metal pieces lost. On the front cover upside down large number "26" in white paint. On the rear cover four engraved brass catches for clasps (one both at the top and at the bottom edge, and two at the outer edge), and eight nails towards the top probably for fixing a fenestra with title label (now lost). Leather tabs partly with Spanish inscriptions pasted on the outer edges of the leaves.