Antiphonal Augustinian

Abstract

This is an antiphonal for the day offices copied for Augustinian use. It is decorated with seventeen illuminations which were individually cut out from earlier manuscripts of various origin and pasted in. In addition to cut decorations this is a palimpsest manuscript, that is the text is copied on leaves from earlier manuscripts with texts erased or washed away for re-use, but on the back flyleaves the previous text is still visible. Written in bold late gothic bookhand, square music notation on red four-line staves, five staves and five lines of text each page. Catchwords are on bottom inside margin on verso of previous leaf. Jules Bonhomme’s signature in ink on flyleaf i dated 1876, his pencil note also dated 1876 on flyleaf iii. At top of same flyleaf signature in ink of l’Abbé Lefèvre, Brussels 1842. On leaf 1 in tiny script: Bene qui le fait/Bene [dixit?] 1579.