Beinecke MS 628

Catholic Church.  Liturgy and Ritual.  Antiphonary for the Cistercian rite. 
By Petrus Ferdinandez Legionensis (Leon).
 
3 Latin bifolium fragments (leaves are not consecutive).  Spain, 16th
century.

Parchment.  196 x 144 (138 x 82) mm.  Double vertical bounding lines, ruled
in violet ink.

Text and musical notation on a five line staff.  Large initials in red,
brown, and blue.  Rubrics and liturgical instructions in red.  Additional
antiphons with musical notation added in margins in a hand of the 17th-18th
century.

Formal gothic bookhand.

Provenance: F. 6v contains the inscription: "Per magnum D. D. Maria de henao.
Humilis Ancilla christi illustris monasterii...Scripsit illud Petrus
Ferdinandez Legionensis.  Anno 1571.  F.F.G."  Formerly Beinecke MS 3.32.

Albert Derolez