A sixteenth-century, Spanish antiphonal, Common of Saints. The binding consists of wooden boards and brown leather with metal clasps and bosses. The inner front cover uses a bifolium from a late fifteenth-/early sixteenth-century Spanish antiphonal as a pastedown and front flyleaf. The inner back cover uses another leaf, likely from the same antiphonal. The antiphonal was obtained in Paris by a Xavier alumnus and donated to Xavier University around 1926.
In 2018 Xavier University Library's Digital Initiatives and University Archives and Special Collections, with support from the Digital Media Lab, digitized the fragile bound manuscript using digital photography. Identification and description created by Dr. Sarah Noonan and Dr. Elizabeth Hebbard as part of the Peripheral Manuscripts Project, a CLIR grant project.
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