Antiphon for the second vespers in the Epiphany of Our Lord
Circa 16th Century
An elaborate illuminated manuscript, predating the Reformation, and probably a fragment of a missal or similar work. There are six lines of music and text with richly coloured depictions of clerics at the foot of the page.
Also at the foot of the page, below the images of clerics, there are manuscript instructions concerning the precise observance of the office. The first line of the antiphon proper reads: "omnes patriarchi pr[a]econati sunt te".
The document was possibly one of the sacred texts appropriated by Robert Wedderburn (1546-1611), notary public at Dundee. It is established that he used more mundane sheets of sacred music in the bindings of the Dundee protocol books.
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