Saint Louis University, VFL MS 015

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS10025

Shelfmark:

VFL MS 015

Title:

Gradual, single leaves

Author:

Catholic Church

Catholic Church WIKIDATA

Place:

Italy

Italy TGN

Date:

ca. 1460

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 2 single leaves : parchment ; 500 x 400 mm

Former Owner(s):

Fischmann, Milton, d.1974

Milton Fischmann WIKIDATA

Fischmann, Gail

Gail Fischmann WIKIDATA

Note:

Ms. leaves.
Layout: Written in 5 long lines, with five 4-line red staves with square notation and C and F clefs (on fol. a, clefs changed from F to C and notation erased and rewritten); ruled in ink with double inner and outer vertical bounding lines top to bottom; pricking in outer margin.
Script: Gothic textualis.
Decoration: Illuminated initials in red and blue, infilled with vegetal motifs and embellished with brushed gold and delicate penwork in the opposite color; 1-line capitals touched in yellow wash.
Origin: Written and decorated in northern Italy ca. 1460.
Gift of Milton and Gail Fischmann, 1962.
Shelfmark: St. Louis, Saint Louis University, Pius XII Memorial Library, Special Collections, VFL MS 015.

Keyword:

Gothic scripts

decorated initials

manuscripts (documents)

detached leaves

illuminated manuscripts

Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)

Gregorian chants

Graduals (Liturgical books)

Catholic Church

Institutional Record:

https://libcat.slu.edu/record=b1977380

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/3/images_VFLMS015_44/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

Saint Louis University