Monastic music book
Collection:CSM Museum & Study Collection
Date: 1400-1500
Dimensions:
56 cm.
Medium: leather, wood, metal, vellum
Object number: B.424
DescriptionChoir book used in the mass. Large book of church music, with Latin manuscript and illuminated capitals written on vellum, probably monastic in origin.
Original full calf leather binding covering oak boards; with blind tooled diaper pattern; sewn on to 7 leather strips; raised metal bosses at centre and corners of boards (centre back one missing); remains of metal clasps. Illustrations: illuminated capitals.
1 v. : 1 col. ill.
Original full calf leather binding covering oak boards; with blind tooled diaper pattern; sewn on to 7 leather strips; raised metal bosses at centre and corners of boards (centre back one missing); remains of metal clasps. Illustrations: illuminated capitals.
1 v. : 1 col. ill.