Vassar College, Leaf 50

Metadata

DS ID:

DS30346

Shelfmark:

Leaf 50

Title:

Leaf from a palimpsest antiphonary (B)

Antiphonary

Place:

Italy

Italy TGN

Date:

14--

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Material:

parchment, music

Parchment AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 1 leaf : parchment, music ; 367 x 249 (262 x 180) mm

Note:

Ms. leaf.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Layout: Written in 6 lines of text and music; ruled in plummet.
Script: Written in gothic script.
Decoration: Large line initials alternating in red and blue with simple reserved designs.
Music: Contains staff notation (4 line)
Origin: Written in Italy during the 15th century; under-text written perhaps in the 14th century.
From same parent volume, a collection of feast-day texts, as Leaf 49 in the Vassar College collection; present leaf acquired by Philip C. Duschnes, bookseller of New York, NY, with characteristic adhesive tape and red-ruled mat, with descriptive notes in pencil, of Otto F. Ege; Vassar College: in pencil inside of mat, 'Duschnes 6.00 27 Feb. '45 Librarians F[un]d (Gen)'

Keyword:

palimpsests (manuscripts)

antiphonaries

Gothic scripts

Manuscripts

Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)

Italy

Fifteenth century

Catholic Church

Liturgics

Texts

Early works

Manuscripts, Medieval

Institutional Record:

https://vassar.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01VAC_INST/349upj/alma991019367355107396

Holding Institution:

Vassar College