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Source Description
This manuscript contains liturgical music to be sung during processions. It is exceptional because of its "album" format (10 x 14.5 cm), which is in part the result of a severe cropping of the folios. The book was made in the late fifteenth or early sixteenth century in Germany. Its continued use is evident from the seventeenth- or eighteenth-century addition of paper folios containing prayers and music. Music is written in Gothic notation on three five-line staves per folio. The first folio is illuminated with a foliate initial for the Feast of the Purification of the Virgin.
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Document identity
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17445
label
Processional
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obj
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object
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1
Source metadata
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17445
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contentType
object
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normalized
title
Processional
description
This manuscript contains liturgical music to be sung during processions. It is exceptional because of its "album" format (10 x 14.5 cm), which is in part the result of a severe cropping of the folios. The book was made in the late fifteenth or early sixteenth century in Germany. Its continued use is evident from the seventeenth- or eighteenth-century addition of paper folios containing prayers and music. Music is written in Gothic notation on three five-line staves per folio. The first folio is illuminated with a foliate initial for the Feast of the Purification of the Virgin.
provenance
Margaret W. Hodges, United States, before 1977 [mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1977, by gift.
date
late 15th-early 16th century, with 18th century additions
citationUrl
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CC0
language
en
genreSpecific
illuminated manuscripts
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1
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1
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import
dimensions
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cm
width
9.2
height
14.2
dimensionsRaw
Folio H: 3 5/8 × W: 5 9/16 in. (9.2 × 14.2 cm)
Source extras
med
ink and pigments on medium to thin parchment covered with late seventeeth- or eighteenth-century brown leather
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6211
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MSS
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106
Single page context
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1
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0
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photo
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