Saint Louis University, VFL MS 017

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS10026

Shelfmark:

VFL MS 017

Title:

Antiphonary single leaf

Antiphonary

Author:

Catholic Church

Catholic Church WIKIDATA

Place:

Bologna

Bologna TGN

Date:

ca. 1300

fourteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Material:

parchment

Parchment AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 1 single leaf : parchment; 518 x 372 mm

Former Owner(s):

Fischmann, Milton, d. 1974

Milton Fischmann WIKIDATA

Fischmann, Gail

Gail Fischmann WIKIDATA

Note:

Ms. leaf.
Rubric: On folio a, recto, "P[er] [h]ebdomada[m] ad m[agnificat] a[ntiphona]: Tristitia vestra alleluya vertetur in gaudium..." (antiphon for Vespers, third week after the octave of Easter).
Layout: Written in 8 long lines, alternating with eight 4-line red staves, with square notation and F and C clefs in black ink; ruled in lead with double inner and outer vertical bounding lines; prickings visible in the inner margin.
Script: Gothic textualis.
Decoration: On folio a, recto: illuminated initial T in pink, blue, orange, lavender, and white, on squared blue ground, decorated with white tracery. Alternating red and blue penwork initials, flourished in the opposite color.
Origin: Written and illuminated in Italy, probably Bologna, ca. 1300.
Gift of Milton and Gail Fischmann, 1962.
Shelfmark: St. Louis, Saint Louis University, Pius XII Memorial Library, Special Collections, VFL MS 017.

Keyword:

illuminated manuscripts

Italy--Bologna

Fourteenth century

detached leaves

manuscripts (documents)

decorated initials

Gothic scripts

Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)

Missouri--Saint Louis

Antiphonaries

Italy

Manuscripts

Early works

Gregorian chants--Manuscripts

Catholic Church

Liturgics

Institutional Record:

https://libcat.slu.edu/record=b1977381x

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/3/images_VFLMS017_44/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

Saint Louis University