15th dx - 16th d". Large initials red (nearly vermilion), small initials highlighted with red, in places they are ornamented with red hairlines as well. Quadratic notation on a red fourline staff (17-18 mm, ruled with a rastrum), custos, linea, b rotundum. Many chant incipits are indicated by duplex lineae. Photograph off. 2 on p. 214.
ANTIPHONARIUM. Probably Swedish, the office for the Purification does not agree with the Dominicanum-Aboense pattern. The contents conform fairly well to the use of the archdiocese of Uppsala, Breviarium Upsalense 1496 ff. [C viij]" - D \f]\ [D vij]" - [D viij]r.
F. 1 [Purificationis Mariae] beginning virgo permansit of the ant. ad Magnificat at I vespers, [Sencx puerunt portabat], and ending with the opening word of the verse of the 2nd resp. of the I nocturn, Senex puerum VAccipiens. F. 2 [Sigfridi episcopi et martyris] beginning [Mildre]di of the 2nd ant. of the I noct., Is namqite regis, and ending in the 1st resp. of the same noct., Uir inclitus V Igitur.
F. 2'2452 "SacköresTijendh och Ödes Lengder sampt Copier affBreffoch Zedler aff Öfresategunder Pro Anno etc 1603". "Finland Nr. 1".
LITURGICAL USE: Probably Sweden or archdiocese of Uppsala; not Dominican or diocese of Åbo. ORIGIN: Added according to liturgical use.