Saint Louis University, VFL MS 009

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DS ID:

DS10015

Shelfmark:

VFL MS 009

Title:

Antiphonary, single leaf

Author:

Catholic Church

Catholic Church WIKIDATA

Place:

Italy

Italy TGN

Date:

ca.1480

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 1 single leaf : parchment, illustrations ; 520 x 376 mm

Former Owner(s):

Fischmann, Milton, d. 1974

Milton Fischmann WIKIDATA

Fischmann, Gail

Gail Fischmann WIKIDATA

Note:

Ms. leaf.
Layout: On fol. a, recto, written in 10 long lines, with four 4-line red staves and mensuration lines in red, C clefs and square notation in black; on verso, 16 long lines; ruled lightly in ink with single inner and outer vertical bounding lines.
Script: Gothic textualis.
Decoration: On fol. a, recto: Staff-height illuminated initial E in blue, with original penwork decoration lightly visible in faded pink. Marginal decoration on recto by later hand (overlaps roman numeral, XL VIII, in upper right-hand corner); full framing border of neo-classical grotteschi motifs with acanthus vinescroll, sea horses, and dolphins in blue, red, and green; historiated roundels...
Origin: Text written and rubricated in Italy ca. 1480; painted marginal decoration added later, possibly in the eighteenth or nineteenth century; attribution made in consultation with Consuelo Dutschke.
Gift of Milton and Gail Fischmann, 1962.
Shelfmark: St. Louis, Saint Louis University, Pius XII Memorial Library, Special Collections, VFL MS 009.

Keyword:

illuminated manuscripts

manuscripts (documents)

Gothic scripts

detached leaves

Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)

Antiphonaries

Gregorian chants--Manuscripts

Catholic Church

Institutional Record:

https://libcat.slu.edu/record=b1977100

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/3/images_VFLMS009_44/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

Saint Louis University