Browse Listings in Medieval & Oriental Manuscripts > Music / Antiphoner
Leaf on vellum from an antiphonary.
A more than 600 years old antiphonary leaf, written in Besançon, in 1370. Musical notation on 4 bars, the staves are in red and the notes in black, numerous pen-flourish...
Place & Date: France 1370
Selling price: $1800
Sold in 2011
Leaf on vellum from an antiphonary.
A more than 600 years old antiphonary leaf, written in Besançon, in 1370. Musical notation on 4 bars, the staves are in red and the notes in black; numerous pe...
Place & Date: France 1370
Selling price: $750
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Leaf on vellum from an antiphonary.
A more than 600 years old antiphonary leaf, written in Besançon, in 1370. Musical notation on 4 bars, the staves are in red and the notes in black: numerous pen-flourish...
Place & Date: Besançon, 1370
Selling price: $900
Sold in 2012
Leaf on vellum from an antiphonary.
A more than 600 years old antiphonary leaf, written in Besançon, in 1370. Musical notation on 4 bars, the staves are in red and the notes in black: numerous pen-flourish...
Place & Date: France, 1370
Selling price: $900
Sold in 2016
Leaf on vellum from an antiphonary.
A more than 600 years old antiphonary leaf, written in Besançon, in 1370. Musical notation on 4 bars, the staves are in red and the notes in black: numerous pen-flourish...
Place & Date: Besançon, 1370
Selling price: $2200
Sold in 2015
Handwritten leaf on vellum from a choirbook .
RECTO: 8 lines of text and 4-line staves, ruled in red, with square neums, rubrics in red and large intials in red and vague blue in-filling. Written in a Flemish hand, b...
Place & Date: Flanders ca. 1400
Selling price: $230
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Leaf from a missal.
Written on vellum. Music on nine lines of text under 4-line staves of music, in black with responses in red. Music in square neums. Initials in red and blue. RECTO: two ...
Place & Date: Italy / Lombardy, ca. 1400
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2010
ANTIPHONER.
This is a large leaf of a 15th.cent. Italian Gradual written in a nice regular gothic bookhand on fine vellum. Recto: 6lines of 4 stave music and 6 lines of text. A large...
Place & Date: Florence-Italy c.1450
Selling price: $160
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ANTIPHONER.
This a large leaf from a 15th. cent. Italian Gradual with 6 lines of 4/stave music and 6 lines of text in a regular good gothic bookhand. Recto: 2 large initials in red a...
Place & Date: Florence-Italy c.1450
Selling price: $160
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Manuscript Music Page
This is a single music leaf on vellum from Italy in the 15th Century. Four line staves, ink in Black with red rubrics.
Place & Date: Italy, ca. 1450
Selling price: $125
Sold in 2008
A large leaf from an Italian manuscript on vellum in Latin.
Choirbooks were and are the main books used to celebrate mass, arranged according to the liturgical year. The choirbook contains introits, tracts, alleluias and communio...
Place & Date: Siena, Italy ca. 1450
Selling price: $120
Sold in 2013
Giant leaf on vellum from an antiphonary.
A very fine antiphonary leaf, written in Latin. RECTO: A wonderful initial "O" inserting a cross, decorated with penwork in red, purple and blue. The initial is...
Place & Date: Spain, c.1480
Selling price: $800
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Manuscript leaf from a missal,on vellum, written in black ink.
8 lines of text under 4-line staves of music in red.RECTO: two 2-line initials in red and blue, on smaller in red, text in a refined hand, page is numbered XXV (25) in th...
Place & Date: France ca. 1480
Selling price: $75
Sold in 2010
Gradual.
Leaf from an Italian Gradual, a songbook used during the ceremony of the H.Mass, written in black ink, neums also ,music on 4-line red staves.RECTO: pagenumber 581, a lar...
Place & Date: Italy Florence ca. 1480
Selling price: $210
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Leaf from a manuscript choirbook on vellum.
RECTO: A very nice large illuminated initial "K" for the Kyrie on The "Quadragesime-Sunday in Lent, in red and blue and yellow surrounds. It is page 587 of...
Place & Date: Florence, 1480
Selling price: $295
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GRADUAL
Leaf from a Florentine gradual, 6 lines of text under 4-line staves of music, in a well performed bookhand. Recto: a large capital "E" (Et si coram hominib(u)s....
Place & Date: Italy, Florence ca. 1480
Selling price: $180
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Leaf on vellum from an antiphonary.
A very fine antiphonary leaf, written in Latin , probably Rome. RECTO: A wonderful initial ,Q, decorated with penwork in purple, white and blue, in rich burnished gold.VE...
Place & Date: Italy 1480
Selling price: $450
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Leaf on vellum from an antiphonary.
A very fine antiphonary leaf, written in Latin , probably Rome. RECTO: A wonderful initial ,D, decorated with penwork in purple, red, white and blue, in rich burnished go...
Place & Date: Italy 1480
Selling price: $500
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Leaf on vellum from an antiphonary.
A very fine antiphonary leaf, written in Latin , probably Rome. RECTO: A wonderful initial E decorated with penwork in purple, white and blue, in rich burnished gold.The ...
Place & Date: Italy 1480
Selling price: $550
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Leaf on vellum from an antiphonal.
Lovely leaf of fine vellum containing four-line music. The recto is decorated with two and the verso with one large initial executed in a very unusual red and blue pen wo...
Place & Date: ca.1480
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2008
Leaf on vellum from an antiphonary.
A very fine antiphonary leaf, written in Latin , probably Rome. RECTO: A wonderful initial "E" decorated with penwork in purple, red, white and blue, in rich bu...
Place & Date: Italy, 1480
Selling price: $750
Sold in 2010
Leaf on vellum from an antiphonary.
Lovely leaf of fine vellum containing four-line music. Each side is decorated with 2 large initials executed in a very unusual red and blue penwork.
Place & Date: Italy, ca.1480
Selling price: $250
Sold in 2008
Spanish Gradual
Leaf on vellum from a 15th century Spanish Gradual. Latin text in beautiful Gothic hand in brown ink with rubrics and five line staves in red. The scribe is noted to be t...
Place & Date: Spain, 1460-1480
Selling price: $195
Sold in 2008
Leaf on vellum from an antiphonary.
Lovely leaf of fine vellum containing four-line music. Each side is decorated with 3 or 1 large initial executed in a very unusual red and blue pen work.
Place & Date: Italy ca.1480
Selling price: $275
Sold in 2009
Giant leaf on vellum from an antiphonary.
A very fine antiphonary leaf, written in Latin. RECTO: A wonderful initial "O" inserting a cross, decorated with penwork in red, purple and blue. The initial is...
Place & Date: Spain, c.1480
Selling price: $1000
Sold in 2012
Giant leaf on vellum from an antiphonary.
A very fine antiphonary leaf, written in Latin. RECTO: A wonderful initial "O" inserting a cross, decorated with penwork in red, purple and blue. The initial is...
Place & Date: Spain, c.1480
Selling price: $1300
Sold in 2012
Leaf on vellum from an antiphonary.
Lovely leaf of fine vellum containing four-line music. The recto side is decorated with 3 large initials executed in a very unusual red and blue penwork, the verso has 2 ...
Place & Date: Italy ca.1480
Selling price: $350
Sold in 2010
Leaf on vellum from an antiphonary.
A wonderful antiphonary leaf, written in Latin, probably Rome. RECTO: A wonderful initial "I," decorated with pen work in red, white, and blue, in rich burnishe...
Place & Date: Italy, 1480
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2021
Leaf on vellum from an antiphonary.
A very fine antiphonary leaf, written in Latin , probably Rome. VERSO: A wonderful initial "E", decorated with penwork in red, and rich burnished gold. RECTO: T...
Place & Date: Italy, 1480
Selling price: $360
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Leaf on vellum from an antiphonary.
A very fine antiphonary leaf, written in Latin , probably Rome. RECTO: Two wonderful initials ,A and O decorated with penwork in red, white and blue, in rich burnished go...
Place & Date: Italy, 1480
Selling price: $900
Sold in 2012
Leaf on vellum from an antiphonary.
A very fine antiphonary leaf, written in Latin , probably Rome. RECTO: A wonderful initial "M" and "P" decorated initials with penwork in purple, red,...
Place & Date: Italy 1480
Selling price: $350
Sold in 2016
Leaf on vellum from an antiphonary.
A very fine antiphonary leaf, written in Latin , probably Rome. RECTO: A wonderful initial "Q", decorated with penwork in red, white and blue, in rich burnished...
Place & Date: Italy, 1480
Selling price: $400
Sold in 2020
GRADUAL
Large leaf from a Florentine Gradual, on vellum, written in black ink, with 5 lines of 4-line musical staves. The gradual, the name derives from the practice of singing ...
Place & Date: Italy, Florence ca. 1490
Selling price: $170
Sold in 2009
Leaf on vellum from an antiphonary.
A small vellum leaf from a processional*, written in the 1500's in Spain (?). The pin pricks to draw the red lines can still be seen. There are many initials in red. *Pro...
Place & Date: Spain ca. 1500
Selling price: $40
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Leaf from a manuscript breviary on vellum.
A beautiful vellum leaf from a French Breviary. Written in two columns in bold gothic book hand with four large decorative initials. Includes part of a song from the Cant...
Place & Date: France ca. 1500
Selling price: $120
Sold in 2009
Leaf from a Florentine Gradual, on vellum.
Leaf from a Florentine Gradual, on vellum, written in black ink, with 7 and 6 lines of 4-line musical staves.RECTO:Two large initials in red and blue with contrasting pen...
Place & Date: Italy / FLorence ca.1500
Selling price: $400
Sold in 2010
Leaf on vellum from a antiphonary.
A leaf from a Medieval Antiphonal or Choir Missal for Spanish use, in Latin on extremely heavy vellum. Justification: 360x246mm. Text is in Spanish rounded gothic hand (R...
Place & Date: Sevilla, ca.1520
Selling price: $170
Sold in 2013
Leaf on vellum from a antiphonary.
A leaf from a Medieval Antiphonal or Choir Missal for Spanish use, in Latin on extremely heavy vellum. Justification: 360x246mm. Text is in Spanish rounded gothic hand (R...
Place & Date: Sevilla, ca.1520
Selling price: $200
Sold
Leaf on vellum from a antiphonary.
A leaf from a Medieval Antiphonal or Choir Missal for Spanish use, in Latin on extremely heavy vellum. Justification: 360x246mm. Text is in Spanish rounded gothic hand (R...
Place & Date: Sevilla, ca.1520
Selling price: $130
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Leaf on vellum from a antiphonary.
A leaf from a Medieval Antiphonal or Choir Missal for Spanish use, in Latin on extremely heavy vellum. Justification: 360x246mm. Text is in Spanish rounded gothic hand (R...
Place & Date: Sevilla, ca.1520
Selling price: $130
Sold
Leaf on vellum from a antiphonary.
A leaf from a Medieval Antiphonal or Choir Missal for Spanish use, in Latin on extremely heavy vellum. Justification: 360x246mm. Text is in Spanish rounded gothic hand (R...
Place & Date: Sevilla, ca.1520
Selling price: $130
Sold
Leaf on vellum from a antiphonary.
A leaf from a Medieval Antiphonal or Choir Missal for Spanish use, in Latin on extremely heavy vellum. Justification: 360x246mm. Text is in Spanish rounded gothic hand (R...
Place & Date: Sevilla, ca.1520
Selling price: $70
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Leaf on vellum from a antiphonary.
A leaf from a Medieval Antiphonal or Choir Missal for Spanish use, in Latin on extremely heavy vellum. Justification: 360x246mm. Wonderful intial with in top a dragon.Tex...
Place & Date: Sevilla, ca.1520
Selling price: $1500
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Leaf on vellum from a antiphonary.
A leaf from a Medieval Antiphonal or Choir Missal for Spanish use, in Latin on extremely heavy vellum. Justification: 360x246mm. Text is in Spanish rounded gothic hand (R...
Place & Date: Sevilla, ca.1520
Selling price: $160
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Leaf on vellum from a antiphonary.
A leaf from a Medieval Antiphonal or Choir Missal for Spanish use, in Latin on extremely heavy vellum. Justification: 410x270mm. Text is in Spanish rounded gothic hand (R...
Place & Date: Sevilla, ca.1520
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2008
Leaf on vellum from a antiphonary.
A leaf from a Medieval Antiphonal or Choir Missal for Spanish use, in Latin on extremely heavy vellum. Justification: 360x246mm. Text is in Spanish rounded gothic hand (R...
Place & Date: Sevilla, ca.1520
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2009
Leaf on vellum from a antiphonary.
A leaf from a Medieval Antiphonal or Choir Missal for Spanish use, in Latin on extremely heavy vellum. Justification: 360x246mm. Text is in Spanish rounded gothic hand (R...
Place & Date: Sevilla, ca.1520
Selling price: $220
Sold in 2011
Leaf on vellum from a antiphonary.
A leaf from a Medieval Antiphonal or Choir Missal for Spanish use, in Latin on extremely heavy vellum. Justification: 360x246mm. Text is in Spanish rounded gothic hand (R...
Place & Date: Sevilla, ca.1520
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2011
Leaf on vellum from a antiphonary.
A leaf from a Medieval Antiphonal or Choir Missal for Spanish use, in Latin on extremely heavy vellum. Justification: 360x246mm. Text is in Spanish rounded gothic hand (R...
Place & Date: Sevilla, ca.1520
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2011
Leaf on vellum from a antiphonary.
A leaf from a Medieval Antiphonal or Choir Missal for Spanish use, in Latin on extremely heavy vellum. Justification: 360x246mm. Text is in Spanish rounded gothic hand (R...
Place & Date: Sevilla, ca.1520
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2010
Leaf on vellum from a antiphonary.
A leaf from a Medieval Antiphonal or Choir Missal for Spanish use, in Latin on extremely heavy vellum. Justification: 360x246mm. Text is in Spanish rounded gothic hand (R...
Place & Date: Sevilla, ca.1520
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2009
Leaf on vellum from a antiphonary.
A leaf from a Medieval Antiphonal or Choir Missal for Spanish use, in Latin on extremely heavy vellum. Justification: 360x246mm. Text is in Spanish rounded gothic hand (R...
Place & Date: Sevilla, ca.1520
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2010
Leaf on vellum from a antiphonary.
A leaf from a Medieval Antiphonal or Choir Missal for Spanish use, in Latin on extremely heavy vellum. Justification: 360x246mm. Text is in Spanish rounded gothic hand (R...
Place & Date: Sevilla, ca.1520
Selling price: $220
Sold in 2009
Leaf on vellum from a antiphonary.
A leaf from a Medieval Antiphonal or Choir Missal for Spanish use, in Latin on extremely heavy vellum. Justification: 360x246mm. Text is in Spanish rounded gothic hand (R...
Place & Date: Sevilla, ca.1520
Selling price: $75
Sold in 2012
Leaf on vellum from a antiphonary.
A leaf from a Medieval Antiphonal or Choir Missal for Spanish use, in Latin on extremely heavy vellum. Justification: 360x246mm. Text is in Spanish rounded gothic hand (R...
Place & Date: Sevilla, ca.1520
Selling price: $180
Sold in 2012
Leaf on vellum from a antiphonary.
A leaf from a Medieval Antiphonal or Choir Missal for Spanish use, in Latin on extremely heavy vellum. Justification: 360x246mm. Text is in Spanish rounded gothic hand (R...
Place & Date: Sevilla, ca.1520
Selling price: $110
Sold in 2012
Leaf on vellum from a antiphonary.
A leaf from a Medieval Antiphonal or Choir Missal for Spanish use, in Latin on extremely heavy vellum. Justification: 360x246mm. Text is in Spanish rounded gothic hand (R...
Place & Date: Sevilla, ca.1520
Selling price: $135
Sold in 2018
Leaf on vellum from a antiphonary.
A leaf from a Medieval Antiphonal or Choir Missal for Spanish use, in Latin on extremely heavy vellum. Justification: 360x246mm. Text is in Spanish rounded gothic hand (R...
Place & Date: Sevilla, ca.1520
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2019
Leaf on vellum from a antiphonary.
A leaf from a Medieval Antiphonal or Choir Missal for Spanish use, in Latin on extremely heavy vellum. Justification: 360x246mm. Text is in Spanish rounded gothic hand (R...
Place & Date: Sevilla, ca.1520
Selling price: $150
Sold in 2013
Leaf on vellum from a antiphonary.
A leaf from a Medieval Antiphonal or Choir Missal for Spanish use, in Latin on extremely heavy vellum. Justification: 360x246mm. Text is in Spanish rounded gothic hand (R...
Place & Date: Sevilla, ca.1520
Selling price: $150
Sold in 2015
Leaf on vellum from a antiphonary.
A leaf from a Medieval Antiphonal or Choir Missal for Spanish use, in Latin on extremely heavy vellum. Justification: 360x246mm. Text is in Spanish rounded gothic hand (R...
Place & Date: Sevilla, ca.1520
Selling price: $180
Sold
Leaf on vellum from a antiphonary.
A leaf from a Medieval Antiphonal or Choir Missal for Spanish use, in Latin on extremely heavy vellum. Justification: 360x246mm. Text is in Spanish rounded gothic hand (R...
Place & Date: Sevilla, ca.1520
Selling price: $150
Sold in 2021
Leaf on vellum from a antiphonary.
A leaf from a Medieval Antiphonal or Choir Missal for Spanish use, in Latin on extremely heavy vellum. Justification: 360x246mm. Text is in Spanish rounded gothic hand (R...
Place & Date: Sevilla, ca.1520
Selling price: $200
Sold
Leaf on vellum from a antiphonary.
A leaf from a Medieval Antiphonal or Choir Missal for Spanish use, in Latin on extremely heavy vellum. Justification: 360x246mm. Text is in Spanish rounded gothic hand (R...
Place & Date: Sevilla, ca.1520
Selling price: $130
Sold in 2017
Leaf on vellum from a antiphonary.
A leaf from a Medieval Antiphonal or Choir Missal for Spanish use, in Latin on extremely heavy vellum. Justification: 360x246mm. Text is in Spanish rounded gothic hand (R...
Place & Date: Sevilla, ca.1520
Selling price: $170
Sold in 2019
Leaf on vellum from a antiphonary.
A leaf from a Medieval Antiphonal or Choir Missal for Spanish use, in Latin on extremely heavy vellum. Justification: 360x246mm. Text is in Spanish rounded Gothic hand (R...
Place & Date: Sevilla, ca.1520
Selling price: $160
Sold in 2019
Leaf on vellum from a antiphonary.
A leaf from a Medieval Antiphonal or Choir Missal for Spanish use, in Latin on extremely heavy vellum. Justification: 360x246mm. Text is in Spanish rounded gothic hand (R...
Place & Date: Sevilla, ca.1520
Selling price: $150
Sold in 2021
Leaf on vellum from a antiphonary.
A leaf from a Medieval Antiphonal or Choir Missal for Spanish use, in Latin on extremely heavy vellum. Justification: 360x246mm. Text is in Spanish rounded gothic hand (R...
Place & Date: Sevilla, ca.1520
Selling price: $150
Sold in 2022
Leaf on vellum from a antiphonary.
A leaf from a Medieval Antiphonal or Choir Missal for Spanish use, in Latin on extremely heavy vellum. Justification: 360x246mm. Text is in Spanish rounded gothic hand (R...
Place & Date: Sevilla, ca.1520
Selling price: $170
Sold in 2019
Leaf on vellum from a antiphonary.
A leaf from a Medieval Antiphonal or Choir Missal for Spanish use, in Latin on extremely heavy vellum. Justification: 360x246mm. Text is in Spanish rounded gothic hand (R...
Place & Date: Sevilla, ca.1520
Selling price: $120
Sold in 2019
Leaf on vellum from a antiphonary.
A leaf from a Medieval Antiphonal or Choir Missal for Spanish use, in Latin on extremely heavy vellum. Justification: 360x246mm. Text is in Spanish rounded gothic hand (R...
Place & Date: Sevilla, ca.1520
Selling price: $170
Sold in 2019
Leaf on vellum from a antiphonary.
A leaf from a Medieval Antiphonal or Choir Missal for Spanish use, in Latin on extremely heavy vellum. Justification: 360x246mm. Text is in Spanish rounded gothic hand (R...
Place & Date: Sevilla, ca.1520
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2021
Renaissance Gregorian Chant.
Original leaf from a Flemish antiphonal; on animal parchment. From the Antiphonal of Marguerite De Bacovel; Abbey of Mont de Ste-Marie, Gosnay (South Flanders). Completed...
Place & Date: Flanders, ca. 1539
Selling price: $350
Sold in 2010
Renaissance Gregorian Chant.
Original leaf, on animal vellum, from the Antiphonal of Marguerite De Bacovel. Completed for her by Louis de Villechecq, Vicar of the nunnery and a Carthusian monk. Abb...
Place & Date: Flanders, ca. 1539
Selling price: $680
Sold in 2010
Leaf on vellum from a manuscript Missal.
Missel fragment with wonderful decorated initials.
Place & Date: France, ca. 1550
Selling price: $80
Sold in 2014
Large leaf from an early 16-th century antiphoner.
RECTO: 6 lines of of 5-stave music. Two large initials. "A"lleluya... in yellow and green, the initial endingin a dragon?s head. "M"agnus... in yellow...
Place & Date: Northern France, 1520-1550
Selling price: $225
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Leaf on vellum from a manuscript Missal.
Missal fragment with two wonderful decorated initials "P" and "D".
Place & Date: France, ca. 1550
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2014
Leaf from a manuscript antiphonal on vellum.
A fine sheet of thin vellum written in black and red ink with several large initials in delicate red and blue penwork.
Place & Date: ca. 1600
Selling price: $160
Sold in 2009
Leaf of manuscript music from an Antiphonary.
This leaf is from an Antiphonary of Spanish origin on extremely heavy vellum (most likely ox) in Latin.Music is on a stave, inked in red, formed of five lines in black in...
Place & Date: Probably Spain, c.1625
Selling price: $230
Sold in 2020
Leaf of manuscript music from an Antiphoner.
This leaf is from an Antiphoner of Spanish origin on extremely heavy vellum (most likely ox) in Latin.RECTO: Music is on a stave, inked in red, formed of five lines in bl...
Place & Date: Probably Spain, c.1625
Selling price: $230
Sold in 2011