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.
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