Description:
"Greatest is Catherine, Virgin of Siena..."Recto:7 lines of music notation in square and diamond shaped neumes and text in Latin written in a gothic bookhand on parchment. Five line staves with a key signature. Rubrics in red. One large decorative initial, 'M' in orange with internal foliate designs.
Verso: As Recto, with a similar decorative initial 'O'.
Origin: Spain.
Date: c.1600.
Content: The initial ''M' on Recto begins the Magnificat antiphon to Catherine:
Maxima est catharine virginis senensis praestati a que incolumitatem languentibus et vitam mortuis restituere potuit, alleluia.
(Greatest is Catherine, Virgin of Siena, through whom He was able to restore safety to the sick and life to the dead, alleluia.)
Verso includes another antiphon to Catherine:
O Virgo maxima gloria a praestans...
(O virgin, outstanding with the highest honour, all the world celebrates on this day your appointed solemnities. The angels extol you with praises...)
Condition:The leaf is in excellent condition. Recto is in… Read More
