Buffalo & Erie County Public Library, RBR Print 235
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS26299
- Shelfmark:
- RBR Print 235
- Title:
- Medieval manuscript leaves
- Place:
- France
- Date:
- 14th to 15th century
- Language:
- lat
- Material:
- color illustrations
- Physical Description:
- Extent: 2 leaves : color illustrations ; 46 x 31 cm (1st) and 14 x 9 cm (2nd)
- Former Owner(s):
- Elson, Louis Charles, 1848-1920
- Note:
- Title assigned by cataloger.
Parchment; f. 1; 9 lines of text and music; the text written in a formal gothic book hand in a space delineated with dry point (?) ruling at the top and at the bottom of the height of the minims; the music in square notation on 4-line red staves, with a custos at the end of each set of staves. On the verso, a historiated gray initial on a blue ground of the height of 2 lines of text with their...
Written in France during the 15th century; the use of the word ?officium? to designate the introit suggests that the book from which this leaf was taken had been copied for a church of Carthusian, Dominican or Carmelite rite. Belonged to Louis Charles Elson (1848-1920) who was a professor of music theory and history at the New England Conservatory of Music from age 34 onwards; he had begun... - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://bepl.ent.sirsi.net/client/en_US/default/search/detailnonmodal/ent:$002f$002fSD_ILS$002f0$002fSD_ILS:1226992/one
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://digital.buffalolib.org/iiif/17196/manifest
- Holding Institution:
