Newberry Library, VAULT Case MS 54.1

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS17899

Shelfmark:

VAULT Case MS 54.1

Title:

Collection of medieval musical treatises

Music

Scribe:

Anglia, G. de

G. de Anglia WIKIDATA

Place:

Pavia, Italy

Pavia TGN

Italy TGN

Date:

1391.

fourteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Material:

ill.

Physical Description:

Extent: 58 leaves : ill. ; 249 x 180 (170 x 120) mm

Note:

Ms. Codex.
Title from printed catalog.
Layout: Written in 34-40 long lines; ruled lightly in plummet.
Script: Written in Italian hybrida.
Decoration 1: Full page illumination of a harp in black, brown, and red, text of "Harpe de mellodie" within: fol. 10r.
Decoration 2: Table set between five Italian gothic columns and vaults in the same colors: fol 43v.
Decoration 3: Blue initials with red flourishes alternating with red initials with blue flourishes, both with intricate pen work in the interior, 7-10 lines high: fols. 7v, 10v, and 33r; a similar red and blue initial 7 lines high: fol. 43r.
Decoration 4: Simple alternating red and blue initials and red paragraph marks throughout.
Origin: Written in Pavia by Friar G. de Anglia, 2 October 1391, signed and dated on fol. 6v.
Stamps on front cover include: right margin, Christopher, and lower margin, a friar with a nimbus of beams of radiating light. Shelf-mark "E" embossed on front cover.

Keyword:

Manuscript waste

bastarda

manuscripts (documents)

illuminated manuscripts

Music theory

History

500-1500

Early works

Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)

Institutional Record:

https://i-share-nby.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01CARLI_NBY/i5mcb2/alma993025618805867

IIIF Manifest:

https://collections.newberry.org/IIIF3/Presentation/Manifest/2KXJ8ZPDNWAD

Holding Institution:

Newberry Library