Saint Louis University, VFL MS 013

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS10023

Shelfmark:

VFL MS 013

Title:

Antiphonary single leaf

Author:

Catholic Church

Catholic Church WIKIDATA

Place:

Italy

Italy TGN

Date:

13--

fourteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 1 single leaf : parchment; 485 x 351 mm

Former Owner(s):

Fischmann, Milton, d. 1974

Milton Fischmann WIKIDATA

Fischmann, Gail

Gail Fischmann WIKIDATA

Note:

Ms. leaf.
Incipit: On folio a, recto, "Levita Laurentius bonu[m] opus operatus est..." Responsory for the Feast of St. Lawrence (August 10) at Matins, First Nocturne.
Layout: Written in 7 long lines, alternating with seven 4-line red staves, with C clefs and square notation in black; blind rulings, prickings visible in inner margin.
Script: Gothic textualis.
Decoration: Illuminated initial L in blue, with orange, green, blue, and white acanthus decoration on squared brown wash ground, decorated with white tracery; alternating red and blue penwork initials, minimally flourished in the opposite color.
Origin: Written and illuminated in Italy the 14th century; possibly from the same manuscript as VFL MS 012.
Gift of Milton and Gail Fischmann, 1962.
Shelfmark: St. Louis, Saint Louis University, Pius XII Memorial Library, Special Collections, VFL MS 013.

Keyword:

Gothic scripts

illuminated manuscripts

manuscripts (documents)

decorated initials

detached leaves

Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)

Antiphonaries

Gregorian chants--Manuscripts

Catholic Church

Institutional Record:

https://libcat.slu.edu/record=b1977378x

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/3/images_VFLMS013_44/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

Saint Louis University