Special Collections & Archives: MS.Ed.7-10 Fragment

MS.Ed.7-10 Antiphonal (fragments). Ferrara(?) c.1470-1480.

Physical description: On parchment. 4 leaves, c.530-580 x 390-400 mm.

Contents: Four separate leaves from the same volume - an Italian Antiphoner.

Decoration: Each leaf has a large historiated initial: P: Christ showing his wounds (foliated in red lxxv); I: Christ standing (ccxi); I: putto head and scroll, In natale apostolorum; I: the Holy Sacrament (cxxxix). The first two initials attributable to the illuminator Antonio Maria Sforza, according to MERT, citing Canova (plates 145-149).

Provenance 1450-1500: Likely to be from the Benedictine monastery of Santa Giustina at Padua (MMM1993, 24). 

Provenance 1919?-1919?: Acquired by Sir C. Sydney Jones from Young's for the School of Education Library, University of Liverpool. Later transferred to the University Library.

• G. Mariani Canova, La miniatura Veneta del Rinascimento (Venice, 1969).
• DACT (Digital Analysis of Chant Transmission) digitised copy and scholarly description by Anna de Bakker, DACT, 2021 (Born Digital)

• Medieval and Early Renaissance Treasures in the North West, 1976. Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester. Item 76.
• Medieval Manuscripts on Merseyside,1993. University Art Gallery, Liverpool and Courtauld Institute Galleries, London. Item 34.