Buffalo & Erie County Public Library, RBR Mss. C33G76 1400z
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS26293
- Shelfmark:
- RBR Mss. C33G76 1400z
- Title:
- Gradual
- Catholic Church
- Place:
- Austria
- Date:
- 15th to 16th century
- Language:
- lat
- Material:
- vellum
- Physical Description:
- Extent: 1 leaf (9 lines) of music : vellum ; 58 cm
- Note:
- Miniature of the Annunciation; decorative border.
Parchment; f. 1; 9 lines of text and music, the text written in a formal and very spiky Germanic gothic book hand, and the music in square notation on 4-line staves, with a custos at the end of each line of staves; the vertical rules on either side of the written space are doubled.
A square miniature opens the feast of the Annunciation, the height of almost 2 lines of text and music: enclosed in a wooden frame, in a large and deep Renaissance-style bedroom, with a long hall reaching straight back to a garden, the archangel Gabriel approaches in flight from the upper left, with the Holy Spirit in the form of a dove above the Virgin's head, as she turns backwards from her...
In the BECPL manuscript, on the recto, a 2-sided border of interconnecting triangles in red, dark blue, green and yellow, each one decorated with faint drawings; the blue triangle directly below the archangel Gabriel contains a coat of arms: quarterly, 1 and 4, [two or three objects?], 2 and 3, argent [?], two bars [azure?]. The R that opens the chants for the Annunciation is rendered as if a...
Written probably in Austria during the turn from the 15th to the 16th century; the assigning of this leaf to Italy in De Ricci's Census proves that De Ricci himself had not seen this leaf. According to the BECPL inhouse website, the leaf belonged to Louis Charles Elson (1848-1920), although there is no comment to that effect in De Ricci, and there is no oval or round sticker with Elson's name...
Title and date from De Ricci.
"Formerly used as a wrapper for deeds."--De Ricci - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://bepl.ent.sirsi.net/client/en_US/default/search/detailnonmodal/ent:$002f$002fSD_ILS$002f0$002fSD_ILS:1223828/one
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://digital.buffalolib.org/iiif/17176/manifest
- Holding Institution:
