Spanish Antiphonal

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Field	Value	Language
dc.date.accessioned	2015-11-05
dc.date.available	2015-11-05
dc.date.issued	1493-01-01
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/2123/14031
dc.description	174 leaves, bound : vellum ; 43 cm. Manuscript antiphonal on vellum. Original reversed calf over wooden boards with some of the original wooden rests. Manuscript text and music is decorated with numerous calligraphic swirls and coloured initials. Some flaking of the text and fading, some marginal holes in the vellum and a few tears and variable toning to the vellum.	en_AU
dc.description.abstract	Responses and antiphons 25th April-29th August. 174 vellum leaves numbered 1-346, misnumbered at leaves 270 and 317 but continuous (numbering probably post dates the manuscript). The colophon leaf translates as: 'The book is finished, praise and glory to Christ. It was finished at three days gone by of the month of August in the year of the Lord 1493. It was ordered to be written by Senora Dona Costanza Gutierres Abbess of the Monastery of San Bernado De Guadalajara' (year may be 1494 as the final number is slightly smudged).	en_AU
dc.subject	Antiphonaries -- Manuscripts.	en_AU
dc.subject	Music -- Manuscripts -- Spain -- Specimens.	en_AU
dc.title	Spanish Antiphonal	en_AU
dc.title.alternative	Add.Ms. 379 Deane	en_AU
dc.type	Musical Score	en_AU