Four parchment leaves from an antiphoner, measuring c.530-580 x 390-400 mm. Square notation on red four-line staff. Chants for Palm Sunday, Ascension, Corpus Christi, and Common of Apostles.
Decoration: Each leaf has a large historiated initial: I: Christ standing (foliated in red ccxi); P: Christ showing his wounds (lxxxv); I: the Holy Sacrament (cxxxix); I: putto head and scroll, In natale apostolorum. The first two initials attributable to the illuminator Antonio Maria Sforza, according to MERT, citing Canova (plates 145-149).
Provenance 1450-1500.
Acquired by Sir C. Sydney Jones ca. 1919 from Young's for the School of Education Library, University of Liverpool. Later transferred to the University Library.
The above is based on the description from the library (https://libguides.liverpool.ac.uk/library/sca/LULMSED7-10_fragment).
However, the attribution that it is "likely to be from the Benedictine monastery of Santa Giustina at Padua (MMM1993, 24)" is based entirely on the style of the miniatures, and not the chant contents.
Fragmentarium entry: https://fragmentarium.ms/overview/F-lmov
G. Mariani Canova, La miniatura Veneta del Rinascimento (Venice, 1969)
Medieval Manuscripts on Merseyside,1993. University Art Gallery, Liverpool and Courtauld Institute Galleries, London. (Item 34.)
Medieval and Early Renaissance Treasures in the North West, 1976. Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester. Item 76.
