A mid-fifteenth century antiphonal leaf from Italy with the chant for the Feast of St. Andrew.
 
Handwritten on vellum in black and red ink in gothic script in Latin. The recto has four lines in red followed by four lines of music in square chant notation with red four line staves and four lines of lyrics. The lyrics has the Office of St. Andrews which would have been sung at Vespers. The recto has a historiated initial of St. Andrew who holds a book and a cross, and is decorated with acanthus leaves and is richly illuminated with liquid gold, purple, pink, blue, green, yellow, and red. The lyrics have two decorated initials in black ink. The lea is numbered to the upper edge. The verso has five lines of music in square chant notation with red four line staves and five lines of lyrics and two rubricated letters in blue and red, and three letters decorated in black ink.
 
(527 x 381 mm). A very good example indeed. Some fading to Latin text, minor loss to the initial.