[Manuscript illumination: Initials & music]
Collection:CSM Museum & Study Collection
Date: 16th century (possibly even 17th century)
Dimensions:
Sheet: 340 x 210 mm (34 x 21 cm)
Medium: Ink and paint on parchment.
Object number: F.129
DescriptionManuscript fragment, from a choir's service book. This would probably have been a Monastic choir, due to the size and quality of the book that this fragment originates from (either a Gradual or an Antiphonal). This is quite a late date for such a manuscript (though they were still in production and remained popular), if indeed the date is accurate, as the printed page had been in circulation for quite some time and the art of manuscript illumination was actually entering it's final years. This would have originally been part of the Central School's Teaching Examples Collection.