Gregorian Chant - Feast of Transfiguration

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Original leaf from a manuscript Spanish Antiphonal on animal parchment. (555 x 385mm – 21 7/8 x 15 1/8'')  The manuscript text and music (six lines of music on a five-line stave) were beautifully executed by hand over 450 years ago!!!

Spain, c. 1550.  This Choirbook once belonged to the Convent of San Pedro Regalado de la Aguilera, and was likely scribed there.

One illuminated initial in red with violet penwork; one large cadel (knot-work) initial; two large illuminated initials alternating in red and violet.

This leaf concludes the hymn for the Feast of the Transfiguration - Quicunque Christum Queritis:  ''Hunc et prophetis...'' (Prophets foretold His birth, And witness'd when He came; The Father speaks to all the earth, To hear, and fear His name. To Jesus, who displays To babes His beaming face, Be, with the Father, endless praise, And with the Spirit of grace. Amen). The large illuminated ''P'' begins Psalm 8:6: ''Paulo minus ab...'' (Thou hast made him a little less than the angels, thou hast crowned him with glory and honor: and hast set him over the works of God).

Antiphonals contain chants for the canonical hours of the Divine Office: first vespers or the vigil of great feasts, matins, lauds, prime, terce, sext, none, vespers and compline.

Shipped unmatted

  • Inventory# IM-10999
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