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Early in the Museum's history, probably before 1863, a large number of folios were acquired from a single German Antiphonal. One of the leaves is inscribed '149[-]'. Sets of such choirbooks were often produced over a period of years, and the date may represent a local tradition for some event with which the books were associated. The ornament is difficult to assign to a particular centre as it is found over a wide area, but the attribution to the region of Mainz may be correct. The text and music are for the Divine Office of several feasts and saints' days. \r\n\r\nThis leaf shows St James of Compostela, identified by his pilgrim's badge, and St James the Less, with whom he shares a feast. The latter's emblem (the fuller's staff, used for beating cloth to cleanse it) is given prominence and so may suggest some link with a cloth-making centre. Feasts for St Benedict perhaps indicate that the choirbook was made for a monastery.","physicalDescription":"Specimen of a manuscript","artistMakerPerson":[{"name":{"text":"Unknown","id":"A1848"},"association":{"text":"","id":""},"note":""}],"artistMakerOrganisations":[],"artistMakerPeople":[],"materials":[{"text":"parchment","id":"AAT11851"},{"text":"ink","id":"AAT15012"},{"text":"pigments","id":"x33204"}],"techniques":[{"text":"illumination","id":"AAT220539"},{"text":"writing","id":"AAT54698"}],"materialsAndTechniques":"Water-based pigments, gilding and ink on parchment","categories":[{"text":"Manuscript cutting","id":"THES275182"},{"text":"Manuscripts","id":"THES48922"},{"text":"Medieval and renaissance","id":"THES271264"}],"styles":[],"collectionCode":{"text":"PDP","id":"THES48595"},"images":["2009CP4545","2006BC3643"],"imageResolution":"high","galleryLocations":[{"current":{"text":"LVLE","id":"THES49657"},"free":"","case":"I","shelf":"81","box":"V"}],"partTypes":[[{"text":"Manuscript","id":""}]],"contentWarnings":[{"apprise":"","note":""}],"placesOfOrigin":[{"place":{"text":"Mainz (Rheinland-Pfalz)","id":"x33602"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""},{"place":{"text":"Germany","id":"x28873"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"productionDates":[{"date":{"text":"1490s","earliest":"1490-01-01","latest":"1499-12-31"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":"dated \"ANNO D[OMI]NI MILLESIMO QUADRINGENTESIMO. NONAG.\" on Museum no. 4051"}],"associatedObjects":[],"creditLine":"","dimensions":[{"dimension":"Height","value":"350","unit":"mm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"written space","note":""},{"dimension":"Width","value":"228","unit":"mm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"written space","note":""}],"dimensionsNote":"","marksAndInscriptions":[],"objectHistory":"Cuttings from the same manuscript in the V&A collection: Museum nos 1107:1, 1107:2, 1107:3, 1107:4, 1107:5, 1107:6, 1107:7, 1107:8, 1107:9, 1107:10, 1107:11, 1107:12, 1107:13, 1107:14, 1107:15, 1107:16, 1107:17; 1107:18, 1107:19, 1107:20, 1107:21, 1107:22, 1107:23, 1107:24, 1107:25, 1107:27, 1107:28, 1107:29, 1107:30, 1107:31, 1107:32, 1107:33, 1107:34, 2897, 3019, 3046, 3048, 3049, 3050, 3055, 3055A, 3056, 3071, 4051, 4052, 4053, 4054, 4132, 7658, 7659.","historicalContext":"Data taken from notes compiled by Rowan Watson. The full text of the entry is as follows:\r\n\r\n'1107.3 (MS 565)\r\nANTIPHONER 25 july\r\nLeaf, with historiated initial V (St James the Greater with pilgrim's staff and bag, and badges on his hat, and St James the Less with a fuller's staff), spray of floral stems in margin\r\n\r\nInc: Virtute magna reddebant apostoli\r\n\r\nGermany (Mainz?) . c. 1490\r\nmsd; written space 350 x 228 mm\r\n7 lines of music (staves of 5 red lines, 29 mm) and text.\r\nHufhagel notation\r\nPaginated \"390\" (16c?)\r\n\r\nPub: 1908 cat, 53; 1923 cat, 43'","briefDescription":"Leaf from Antiphoner. Historiated initial V with St. James the Greater holding pilgrim's staff and bad and with pilgrim's badges on his hat and St. James the Less with a fuller's staff.  Spray of floral stems in margin. Germany. ca 1490. A duplicate number MS.565 was assigned to this object in error and was subsequently cancelled.","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"<u>Catalogue of Miniatures, Leaves, and Cuttings from Illuminated Manuscripts. Victoria and Albert Museum. Department of Engraving, Illustration and Design</u>, by S.C. Cockerell and C. Harcourt Smith (London: HMSO, 1923, 2nd edition).","id":"AUTH349022"},"details":"pp. 43-45 (as German (Mainz), dated 149_). 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