[ANTIPHONARY]. PROPRIUM DE TEMPORE, ad Sabbato sancto, usque - Lot 19

[ANTIPHONARY]. PROPRIUM DE TEMPORE, ad Sabbato sancto, usque ad Dominicam primam, Adventus exclusive. Large in-folio brown basane (approx. 60 X 40.5 cm) on wooden boards, boards decorated with a cold decoration of framing fillets and a large central rhombus, as well as 5 metal cabochons, metal clasps, 4-nerved mute spine, parchment replacement endpapers of ancient manuscripts (antiphonaries) (Period binding); (2) ff. index, (1) f., 111 ff. numbered 1 to 111 [i. e. 98 ff.: ff. 95, 96 and 97 are missing]. Cutting to leaves 46, 61 and 111 with missing text, old restorations in margins and corners of several leaves, loose parts of clasps missing. ANTIPHONARY SPECTACULAR MANUSCRIPT ON VELIN LEATHER (parchment), probably dating from the 16th or very early 17th century. It is written on both sides in red and black ink, with musical staves in red and square notes in black. This Catholic liturgical work, which gathers the Gregorian scores of the canonical hours "from Holy Saturday up to and including the first Sunday of Advent", is decorated on the title with a large colored foliage decoration with birds and crosses, as well as around a hundred initials in blue or red on a red or blue watermarked background.