Harvard University, MS Lat 388

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS10930

Shelfmark:

MS Lat 388

Title:

Antiphonary (Ambrosian rite)

Author:

Catholic Church

Catholic Church WIKIDATA

Date:

ca. 1150

twelfth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

In Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 1 v. (141 leaves, in paper wrappers) in 1 box : vellum ; 27 cm.

Note:

Written in an unidentified hand in brown ink in a small rounded late Carolingian minuscule of chiefly 11 lines in single or double columns with neumes arranged above and below a single red stave. Large decorated or historiated initials in red and/or brown with zoomorphic geometric designs, and penwork flourishes appear on ff. 1v, 18r, 27v, 71v (2), 77r, while smaller colored initials occur...
Written in Lombardy, perhaps Milan, ca. 1150.
Enclosed in decorative paste paper covers; remains of medieval stitching on 3 leather thongs.
In a box.
Belonged to an unidentified monastery, "Iste liber est [de] monesteri di loco legnate" (f. 126r); Sotheby's, London, 7 Dec. 2004, lot 37.
Purchased with the Bayard Livingston Kilgour and Kate Gray Kilgour fund, and with unrestricted and undesignated funds, 2005.

Keyword:

rules (layout features)

Ambrosian chants

Manuscripts, Medieval

Neumes

Ambrosian rite (Catholic Church)

Institutional Record:

https://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/990096914170203941/catalog

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.lib.harvard.edu/manifests/drs:3503565

Holding Institution:

Harvard University