Leaf from an Antiphonary: Floral Initial (recto)

Cleveland Museum of Art

Leaf from an Antiphonary: Floral Initial (recto)

Date
c. 1475
Medium
Ink, tempera, and gold on vellum
Culture
Italy
Department
Medieval Art
Institution
Cleveland Museum of Art

The leaf comes from an Antiphonale, a liturgical book that contains the melodies and texts of all the chants of the Liturgy of the Hours, the antiphons. These include the psalms, responsories and hymns, which are arranged in the book in the order of the church year. The antiphons served clergymen and monks or nuns for their service in the choir stalls of the church. Churches had mostly two copies of this book because the clergymen were sitting in the coir stall on both sides of the high altar and therefore needed a copy for each side.

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