E-Sco (Sevilla) Institución Colombina Libro 069

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Libro 069
Siglum

E-Sco Libro 069

Source type
Subcategory of source
Category
Document type
Main place of use
Date
15th century (second half)
Cursus
Type of script
Type of notation
Decoration

Richly illuminated manuscript, using several colours, including gold, with phytomorphic and zoomorphic motifs. This decorative style distinguishes two-line capital letters and one-line initials (these ones sometimes in brown and sepia). The illuminated capital C on folio 2v depicts a Nativity scene.

Material
Condition of document

Good

Foliation/Pagination

48 folios. Lately added arabic numbering. First original folios missing.

Bindings

Leather over boards, painted with decorations in brown, with metal staples and locks.

Remarks
This manuscript has been updated in the last quarter of the 16t century according to the Tridentine reform. Following the humanistic principles promoted by Trent, the melodies were slightly modified, although generally keeping the main design of the original versions, still visible beneath the erasures and modifications. The setting of the liturgical elements was also forcibly modified; in this case, however, it is quite impossible to see the original layer. Therefore, for the entries "Tradition" and "Use" above, we indicate "Roman (post-Tridentine)".
References

HIDALGO, Rosario Marchena, “La iluminación en Sevilla a lo largo del siglo XV”, Laboratorio de Arte, 20 (2007), pp. 9-30; Idem, Las miniaturas de los libros de coro de la Catedral de Sevilla: el siglo XVI, Sevilha: Universidad de Sevilla e Fundación Focus – Abengoa, 1998.

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