Harvard University, MS Typ 984

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS10687

Shelfmark:

MS Typ 984

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: 3 fragments : vellum ; 15 x 15 cm. or smaller, mounted to 47 x 30 cm. (1 folder)

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:

Drawn in tempera and colored inks with gold leaf.
The illuminations have been attributed to the Lombard artist Ambrogio da Marliano.
No. 1 is separately mounted; nos. 2 and 3 are mounted together.
The verso of no. 3 shows text in a large rotunda gothic hand, with music on a 4-line staff. The other 2 versos are not visible.
"From the Cathedral of Como" and "No. 3" (inscriptions on the verso of no. 3); 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/990112928370203941/catalog

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.lib.harvard.edu/manifests/drs:11676303

Holding Institution:

Harvard University