Liber Misticus, Offices and Masses of the Mozarabic Liturgy from the feast of Mary to Pentecost
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-33r: Idelfonsus of Toledo, De uirginitate perpetua beatae Mariae, divided into 6 readings; ff. 33r-170r: Offices and Masses of the Mozarabic Liturgy from the Feast of the Virgin (18th December) to St. Peter in Cathedra (22nd February); ff. 170v-172v: 'Lectiones de letanias c...
Contents: Liber canticorum (nos 2-7 and 10-15). Decoration: Initials with fish motifs and dots, outlined in brown and coloured in red and green, now faded. Rubrics and initials in red. Musical notation: Northern Visigothic neumes accompanying the antiphons. For Boylan the illumination is evide...
Case and magnifying glass for the Triumphs of Charles V
Scope & Content:
Purple velvet of Charles Lewis, c. 1816, in a case of dark blue morocco, velvet-lined, with an early nineteenth-century magnifying glass recessed into it. Also included is the key to the case.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1816
Extent:
Dark blue morocco and velvet case, with magnifying glass and key
J. S. Bach: ‘Praeludium 6’ and ‘Fuga. 6’ (Prelude and fugue in D minor, BWV 875). In the hand of Anna Magdalena Bach, with revisions in the hand of the composer.