Detail View: Medieval Collection:

Image Number: 
Bookreader Latin MS 439
Reference Number: 
Latin MS 439
Parent Work Title: 
Antiphonarium Romanum
Translated Parent Work Title: 
Antiphoner
Date Created: 
15th century
Description: 
Antiphoner. 15th century binding of stamped leather over wooden boards with modern rebacking; metal bosses and corner pieces, two clasps (missing). Front fly-leaf: 'rechteren koor te Soeterbeeck'. Old pencil foliation, which numbers the three parts separately, indicates that several folios have been removed. Part one (temporal) begins before f. 1; part two (proper of the saints) begins on f. 89, and part three (common of the saints) on f. 206. Music throughout (except fly-leaves), using square notation on red staves.
Language Code: 
lat
Subject: 
Religion
Subject: 
Music
Category of Material: 
Manuscripts
Sub-Category: 
Codex
Technique Used: 
Handwriting
Support: 
Leather
Support: 
Vellum
Support: 
Wood
Item Height: 
405 mm
Item Width: 
305 mm
Current Repository: 
The University of Manchester Library, U.K.
Provenance: 
Hartland, Ernest, former owner
Rights Holder - Image: 
The University of Manchester Library
Rights holder - Work: 
The University of Manchester Library
Access Rights: 
Creative Commons License
References: 
'Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester', Vol. 79 (2), 1997. Barry Cooper, 'Catalogue of pre-1900 music manuscripts in the John Rylands University Library of Manchester'
References: 
Taylor, F., Supplementary Handlist of Western Manuscripts in the John Rylands Library (Manchester, 1937), pp. 7-21.
Date Captured (yyyy-mm-dd): 
2013-02
Image Creation Technique: 
Digital capture by Heritage Imaging, The University of Manchester Library
Date Image Added (yyyy-mm): 
2013-02
Metadata Language: 
eng-GB