Boston Public Library, MS pb Med.144
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS3368
- Shelfmark:
- MS pb Med.144
- Title:
- Single leaf from a 14th-century antiphonal : in Latin].
- Catholic Church
- Artist:
- Niccolò, di Giacomo, approximately 1330-1403
- Place:
- Bologna]
- Date:
- between 1375 and 1399
- Language:
- lat
- Physical Description:
- Extent: 1 leaf ; parchment, ill. ; 491 x 382 (469 x 275) mm
- Former Owner(s):
- Certosa dello Spirito Santo (Lucca, Italy)
Libreria antiquaria Hoepli
- Note:
- Ms. leaf.
Bibliographic record created by BPL staff based on description by Dr. Lisa Fagin Davis.
Location and date derived fron contents.
Script: Written in gothic rotunda in black ink with red rubrics. Square Gregorian notation on a four-line red staff, no stems.
Layout: Five staves.
Decoration: Two two-line initials in black with calligraphic decoration. On the verso, a two-staff-high initial [B] of acanthus in pink, red and blue, gold leaf at the corners and a blue background, historiated with four scenes of martyrdom (clockwise from the upper left): a bearded man in a pink tunic and hat with cords pummels St. Stephen, dressed in a red deacon's vestments, with a stone; a...
Binding: Housed in an oversize folder.
Origin: Possibly a leaf from one of the choirbooks commissioned of Niccolò di Giacomo by the Carthusian monastery Santo Spirito in Lucca in the late fourteenth century.
Provenance: The monks of Santo Spirito sold their manuscript choirbooks in the late nineteenth century, and they were subsequently broken to be sold as individual leaves and cuttings. This leaf probably from the same manuscript as BPL MS pb Med.146.
Immediate source of acquisition: Purchased from Hoepli (cat. 1953, no. 22, pl. XIII) in 1955.
Call number: MS pb Med.144.
Former call number: MS 1569.
Bibliography: Haraszti, Zoltán. "Additions to the Rare Book Department," Boston Public Library Quarterly 9 (1957): 63; Francesca Flores d'Arcais, "Per Nicolo di Giacomo da Bologna." Studi di storia dell'arte in memoria di Mario Rotili, (Naples 1984): 273-82; Benati, Daniele & Laura Marchesini ed., I corali di Nicolò di Giacomo della Collegiata di San Giovanni in Persiceto. Argelato (Bologna... - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://catalog.mbln.org/Polaris/search/title.aspx?ctx=12.1033.0.0.5&pos=1&cn=8444703
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/5q47t074x/manifest
- Holding Institution:
