DPL Reed MMF28

Antiphonal, Latin. Germany, fifteenth century

Single leaf. 500 by 343mm. Single column, 11 lines each of text and music, ruled in ink, written space 345 by 223mm; gothic liturgical hand.

Text: Part of Vespers and Matins for the feast of St Andrew (30 November). Music in Hufnagelschrift neumes on a 5-line stave.
Decoration: Large initial 'U' with full-colour floral border, small initials in red and blue.
Provenance: Formerly owned by Eric Korner (1893–1980). Purchased by Maggs on behalf of the Dunedin Public Library, from Sotheby's, 3 April 1957, lot 80.
References: Manion, Vines, de Hamel no. 91; Reed Early Bibles no. 50; The Medieval Imagination: Illuminated Manuscripts from Cambridge, Australia and New Zealand edited by Bronwyn Stocks and Nigel Morgan (South Yarra, Victoria: Macmillan Art Publishing, 2008), no. 26.
Shelfmark: RMM Fragment 28.

Description reproduced from Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in New Zealand Collections (London, 1989) by permission of the authors (Christopher de Hamel, Margaret Manion, and the family of Vera F. Vines).