Choir Book , Spain, Granada (?), 16th century, ink and paint on parchment, wood cover with metal, , Western University, Music Library, MS M2150,

Choir Book , Spain, Granada (?), 16th century, ink and paint on parchment, wood cover with metal, , Western University, Music Library, 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 micro-CT display, features wheel-shaped bosses on its cover, protecting against damage and perhaps evoking the emblematic wheel of St. Catherine.

Western University, Music Library

16th century

Western University, Music Library

Dimensions: 60 cm x 43 cm (closed)

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

Latin

Western University M2150

Spain, Granada