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Auction 93, Lot 456

"[Manuscript Music]", Anon.

Subject: Music

Period: 1350 (circa)

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Size:
11 x 16.2 inches
27.9 x 41.1 cm
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A fine sheet of vellum with beautiful manuscript, five-line music from a very early 14th century Antiphonal or music book for the Catholic mass, also know as a Graduale. Written on both sides with recto containing a very large and elaborately decorated initial covering the entire left margin.

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Condition: A+

Estimate: $700 - $800

Sold for: $650

Closed on 12/6/2000

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