| Description | Leaf from an antiphonal, parchment. The text consists of antiphons for Holy Saturday and Easter Sunday and has a partially illuminated border and illuminated initial 'A'. The decoration has been badly damaged through use as a binding fragment. The music is in a Bohemian rhomboid notation, possibly originating in Prague. It is on a 5-line stave ruled in red with C marked. Main body text in black in a Gothic bookhand with alternating red and blue initials, red and black rubrics and a single black initial 'K' for the Kyrie eleison. The illumination is in the lower left hand and bottom margins on the recto, surrounding the chants for Easter Sunday. It consists of a floral motif drawn in black and coloured in red, blue and green with gold orbs. The illuminated initial 'A' is blue with the spaces filled in gold.
On the recto are antiphons for Holy Saturday: "O mors ero mors tua morsus", "Plangent eum quasi unigentum", "Attendite universi populi et videte dolorem meum", O vos omnes qui transitis", "Mulieres sedentes ad monumentum" and "Vita in Ligno moritur". The antiphons for Easter Sunday begin on the recto with the Alleluia and responses (given in heavily abbreviated form), and "Vespere autem sabbati". They continue on the verso with "Ego sum qui sum et consilium", "Postulam patrem meam", "Ego dormivi et somnum coepi", and "Angelus domini descendit de caelo".
The leaf is annotated with a blue number 5 on recto and verso. There are some pencil markings (20th century?) on the lower left side of the verso surrounding an earlier annotation in ink, possibly a name. The date 1906 has been written in red at the top right corner of the recto. The numeral XC is just visible in red at the bottom of the recto, probably an original page number. |