Beschreibung:

Cutting from a Noted Missal, with music in Beneventan neumes, in Latin, manuscript on parchment [Italy, mid-twelfth century] Fragment from the foot of a leaf, with remains of two columns each with 17 lines in two sizes of a good early gothic bookhand (text from the Common of Martyrs and the Common of a Confessor Bishop), with a capital F which sits low with its midbar on the line, music in stylised Beneventan diastematic neumes arranged around a single red staff-line, capitals touched in red, rubrics in red, some stains, spots and small holes from reuse in a later binding, overall fair and presentable condition, 146 by 202mm.