Choir Book, Spain, Granada (?), 16th century, Ink and paint on parchment, wood cover with metal, On loan from Western University, Archives & Special Collections, MS M2150

Choir Book, Spain, Granada (?), 16th century, Ink and paint on parchment, wood cover with metal, On loan from Western University, Archives & Special Collections, MS M2150

Spiritual travel is experienced through sung prayer as well as through map image. This choir book or 'antiphoner' includes chants for the Christian Holy Week of Easter. So heavy that it can only be moved by two people, this enormous book would have been displayed open so that its monumental notation could be seen by all singers. This copy, animated in the microCT display, features wheel-shaped bosses on its cover, protecting against damage and perhaps evoking the emblematic wheel of St. Catherine.

Dimensions: 60 cm x 43 cm

Material: ink and paint on parchment, wood cover with metal

Western University M2150

Spain, Granada (?)

Photographer credit: Rayanne Tipert (photographer), courtesy of Western University, Archives and Special Collections

16th century

Latin

Western University, Archives and Special Collections

Western University, Archives and Special Collections

Choir Book