Physical description: Illuminated parchment leaf from a late fifteenth or early sixteenth century Italian manuscript antiphoner. Re-used to cover the boards of an incunable edition of Lucan, Pharsalia (Brescia, 1486). Board size: 300 x 215 mm.
Contents: initial marking the start of the antiphon: Caro et sanguis non revelavit tibi sed Pater in coelis (Bible: New Testament. Matthew 16:17)
Decoration: flourished initial.
Provenance 1932-1932: Purchased for the University of Liverpool Library December 1932; accession number 30794.
DACT (Digital Analysis of Chant Transmission) digitised copy and scholarly description by Anna de Bakker, DACT, 2021 (Born Digital)
Medieval Manuscripts on Merseyside,1993. University Art Gallery, Liverpool and Courtauld Institute Galleries, London. Item 45 (under former classmark: SPEC E.P.I.L935.2).
