Boston Public Library, MS pb Med.148
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS3371
- Shelfmark:
- MS pb Med.148
- Title:
- Single leaf from a 15th-century antiphonal : in Latin].
- Catholic Church
- Place:
- Italy]
- Date:
- between 1475 and 1499
- Language:
- lat
- Physical Description:
- Extent: 1 leaf : parchment, ill. ; 648 x 484 (500 x 325) mm
- Former Owner(s):
- Leo S. Olschki (Firm)
- Note:
- Ms. leaf.
Bibliographic record created by BPL staff based on description by Dr. Lisa Fagin Davis.
Date and location derived from contents.
Script: Written in a Gothic rotunda in black ink with red rubrics.
Layout: Single column, five staves. Vertical bounding lines in red and doubled, writings lines in light plummet. Square Gregorian notation on a four-line red staff, no stems.
Decoration: On the recto, a two-staff high initial [G] formed with acanthus on a gold and floriate background, historiated with three Franciscans: at the left, St. Anthony of Padua, holding a lily; in the center, St. Francis, with stigmata and holding a book and a small crucifix; and at the right, St. Bernardino da Siena (can. 1450) holding a monstrance.
Binding: Housed in an oversize manilla folder.
Origin: Written in northern Italy at the end of the fifteenth century.
Immediate source of acquisition: Purchased from Olschki in 1954.
Call number: MS pb Med.148.
Former call number: MS 1573.
Bibliography: Boston Public Library quarterly VII (1955), p. 75. - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://catalog.mbln.org/Polaris/search/title.aspx?ctx=12.1033.0.0.5&pos=1&cn=8444706
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/s4655v45r/manifest
- Holding Institution:
