Boston Public Library, MS pb Med.146

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS3370

Shelfmark:

MS pb Med.146

Title:

Cutting from a 14th-century antiphonal : in Latin].

Author:

Catholic Church

Catholic Church WIKIDATA

Artist:

Niccolò, di Giacomo, approximately 1330-1403

Niccolò di Giacomo WIKIDATA

Place:

Bologna]

Bologna TGN

Date:

between 1375 and 1399

fourteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

lat

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 1 item : parchment, ill. ; 275 x 295 mm

Former Owner(s):

Certosa dello Spirito Santo (Lucca, Italy)

Certosa di Farneta, Province of Lucca WIKIDATA

Libreria antiquaria Hoepli

Libreria antiquaria Hoepli WIKIDATA

Note:

Ms. fragment.
Bibliographic record created by BPL staff based on description by Dr. Lisa Fagin Davis.
Script: Written in a gothic rotunda in black ink with red rubrics.
Layout: Single column, 2.5 staves extant.
Decoration: On the recto, a two-staff-high initial [T] of scrolling acanthus in pink, red and blue, gold leaf and a blue background, St. Mark, dressed as a Bishop, being dragged through the streets by two men holding a cord tied to his feet, as another man points at him. Partial border extant of scrolling acanthus in blue, pink, green and tan with red flowers and gold discs.
Binding: Housed in an oversize manilla 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.144.
Immediate source of acquisition: Purchased from Hoepli (cat. 1953, no. 21, pl. XII) in 1955.
Call number: MS pb Med.146.
Former call number: MS 1571.
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:

Antiphonaries (Service books)

Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)

Illumination of books and manuscripts

Manuscripts, Medieval

Digital images

Gothic scripts

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.mbln.org/Polaris/search/title.aspx?ctx=12.1033.0.0.5&pos=1&cn=8444705

IIIF Manifest:

https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/s4655v42x/manifest

Holding Institution:

Boston Public Library