Wellesley College, MS 2
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS16431
- Shelfmark:
- MS 2
- Title:
- Graduale romanum, Temporale
- Place:
- Italy (Venice or Padua)
- Date:
- 1430?
- Language:
- lat
- Material:
- parchment
- Physical Description:
- Extent: 296 leaves : parchment ; 550 x 395 (387 x 262) mm
- Note:
- Title supplied by cataloger.
Collation: Parchment. 1-78, 88(−1+1), 9-248, 254, 26-348, 3510, 368, 378+2; fol. 62 is a sixteenth-century replacement, quire 25 is short so that the Introit of the mass for the Feast of the Resurrection will begin on a new quire (on fol. 189). Catchwords are either written in the scribal hand in center of lower margin, or else in a very small crabbed cursive in the lower right corner of the...
Layout: 1 column, 7 staves. Bounding and writing lines in plummet. Square notation on a four-line red staff.
Script: Written in a rotunda in brown ink. Red rubrics.
Decoration: Initials alternate blue with red filigree or red with blue filigree. 53 historiated initials (plus a later initial on f. 62). f.1: David lifts up his soul to God, in the lower margin a clerical saint holds the model of a castle/walled town (?); f. 3: Hosea [i.e. Isaiah?]; f. 5: Amos; f. 22: Angel; f. 24: Annunciation to a Shepherd; f. 26: Nativity; f. 28v: St. Stephen; f. 31: St...
Origin: Written in Northeast Italy in the early fifteenth century.
Miniaturist: Master of the Donato Commission.
Authoritative scholarly article published on the subject of this manuscript: Armstrong, Lilian, "The Master of the Donato Commission: Four Choirbooks," Bollettino d'Arte, no. 28 (Oct.-Dec. 2015), pp. 35-60.
Belonged in the fifteenth century to the church of St. Nicholas at Sacile (near Udine), inscription on f. 1 reads "Hoc liber est deputatis ecclesiae S. Nicolai de Sacile." - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://libcat.wellesley.edu/Record/in00000625691
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://repository.wellesley.edu/node/34251/manifest
- Holding Institution:
