Harvard University, MS Typ 986

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS10682

Shelfmark:

MS Typ 986

Title:

Gradual or antiphonary

Author:

Catholic Church

Catholic Church WIKIDATA

Date:

circa 1450.

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

lat

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 1 fragment : vellum ; 11 x 11 cm., mounted 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:

On the verso is text in a large gothic rotunda hand, with music on a red 4-line staff.
Drawn in tempera and colored inks with gold leaf.
Probably Lombard.
Mounted with MS Typ 985.
"From the Cathedral of Como" and "No. 4" (inscriptions on verso); 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:

rules (layout features)

historiated initials

manuscripts (documents)

cuttings (partial works)

Institutional Record:

https://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/990112931100203941/catalog

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.lib.harvard.edu/manifests/drs:11676305

Holding Institution:

Harvard University