Harvard University, MS Typ 981

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS10681

Shelfmark:

MS Typ 981

Title:

Gradual or antiphonary

Author:

Catholic Church

Catholic Church WIKIDATA

Date:

circa 1450-1475.

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

lat

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 2 fragments : vellum ; 14 x 15 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 verso of no. 2 shows music on a large red 4-line staff and text in a rotunda gothic hand. No. 1 is backed on paper and the verso cannot be seen.
Probably from Lombardy.
Drawn in tempera, colored inks and gold paint.
"From the Cathedral of Como" - inscription on verso of no. 2; 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)

cuttings (partial works)

historiated initials

Institutional Record:

https://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/990112902560203941/catalog

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.lib.harvard.edu/manifests/drs:11676300

Holding Institution:

Harvard University