The Medieval and Renaissance Manuscript Leaf Collection

Parchment bifolium fragment from a 16th century Spanish antiphonary - Layout: lines of musical notation with text. Script: Gothic book hand, written in black ink. Decoration: Initials in red. with contrasting penwork in blue. Music: staff notation (5 line); staffs drawn in red ink and notes in black

Manuscript leaf from Naples, vellum, written both sides - 30 lines per page, arranged in 2 columns; ruled in ink - textura, written in brown ink, rubrics in red, initials in gold with blue or red contrasting ink

Manuscript leaf of Bible (Exodus) from Paris, s.xiii, vellum, written both sides - 43 lines per page, arranged in 2 columns; pricked and ruled in ink - Small textura hand, written in brown encaustic ink, rubrics in red - Initials in blue or red with decorated in contrasting red or blue penwork; decorated chapter numbers in blue and red

Manuscript leaf, Breviary, Franco-Flemish, s. xv, vellum, written both sides - 17 lines per page, arranged in single columns; dry-point ruling - Bastarda, written in brown ink, rubrics in red - Illuminated initials in burnished gold with grounds of red and blue; one gold initial decorated with black penwork - '54' lightly written on recto of leaf; lightly scribbled doodles in margin of verso

Manuscript leaf, Missal, from Northern Italy, 15th century, vellum, written both sides - 26 lines, in 2 columns - Italian rotunda, written in black ink, rubrics in red - Initials in blue with contrasting penwork in red

Manuscript leaf, Psalter, from Germany, s. xii, vellum, written both sides - 26 lines per page, arranged in single columns; dry-point ruling - Caroline minuscule, written in brown ink, rubrics in red - Page number '19' written in black ink on recto