Extent: 1 leaf : parchment, ill. ; 543 x 383 (378 x 256) mm
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Ms. leaf. 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, 6 staves. Bounding and ruling lines in blind. Square Gregorian notation on a four-line red staff, no stems. Decoration: On the recto, a two-staff high initial [H] in colors with some scrolling leaves at the corners, historiated with St. Zeno in his Bishop's robes excorcising a demon from the daughter of Emperor Gallienus, who kneels before him as the winged demon flies from the top of her head. Binding: Housed in an oversize manilla folder. Origin: Written in Italy in the first half of the fourteenth century. Immediate source of acquisition: Purchased from La Bibliofilia, Milan, in 1954. Call number: MS pb Med.149. Former call number: MS 1574. Bibliography: Boston Public Library quarterly, VII (1955), p. 75.
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