Toronto, University of Toronto - Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, MSS 09700

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CDN-Ttfl MSS 09700

Summary

Antiphoner covering Lent, Easter, and Eastertide up to the sixth week after Easter.

Liturgical Occasions

Fol. 1r, Lent; 101v, Easter and Eastertide.

Description

Gothic script on vellum; square notation on red, 4-line staves. Twenty-one illuminations representing Florentine musicians of the fourteenth century including Francesco Landini, Andrea de' Servi, Lorenzo Masini, Ghiradellus de Florentia, Nicolaus Prepositi de Perugia, Vincenzo da Rimini and Antonio Zacara da Teramo were added by a later hand, partly obscuring the texts.

Coat of arms of the Strozzi family on recto of final leaf: or on a fess gules three crescents argent.
Partially leather-covered, oak boards studded with metal fittings and brass bosses.

De Ricci and Wilson, v. 2, p. 2236, no. 9.
Formerly catalogued as Fisher MSS 09255.
Acquired from the ROM, 24 Apr. 1964.

Notes on the Inventory

CDN-Ttfl MSS 09700 was inventoried by Manuel Piazza (University of Toronto, later Yale Institute of Sacred Music) with proofreading by Andrea Klassen (to folio 37) and Alessandra Ignesti, both working as Research Assistants at Dalhousie University.

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