Leaf 5 from an antiphonal fragment

Italian 13th Century

National Gallery of Art

This is a photograph of a page from a medieval music manuscript. The page contains neumatic notations set on a series of four red lines that form a staff. The text accompanying the music is written in Latin using a Gothic style script. Some of the letters are decorated with colorful flourishes in red and blue ink. Red ink is also used for some of the text, marking it as different from the main body of black text. The paper appears aged, with visible wear and some small holes on the page.