Harvard University, MS Typ 983

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS10679

Shelfmark:

MS Typ 983

Title:

Gradual or antiphonary

Author:

Catholic Church

Catholic Church WIKIDATA

Date:

circa 1400.

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

lat

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 3 fragments : vellum ; 12 x 12 cm. or smaller, mounted together to 47 x 30 cm.

Former Owner(s):

Hoe, Robert, 1839-1909

Robert Hoe III WIKIDATA

Ottley, William Young, 1771-1836

William Young Ottley WIKIDATA

Payne, John Thomas

Thomas Payne WIKIDATA

Note:

The versos show music on a large 4-line red staff with text in a gothic rotunda hand and initials with pen-work decoration.
Drawn in tempera and colored inks, with gold leaf.
Nos. 1 and 2 are by one artist, no. 3 by another.
"From the Cathedral of Como" and "No. 8" (inscriptions on the verso of each fragment); Robert Hoe (his sale, 1912, part IV, lot 2361), to Quaritch.
Gift of W. A. White to the Fogg Art Museum, 1916. Transferred to Houghton Library, 1990.

Keyword:

manuscripts (documents)

historiated initials

cuttings (partial works)

Institutional Record:

https://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/990112906920203941/catalog

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.lib.harvard.edu/manifests/drs:11676302

Holding Institution:

Harvard University