Boston Public Library, MS pb Med.149
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS3372
- Shelfmark:
- MS pb Med.149
- Title:
- Single leaf from a 14th-century antiphonal : in Latin].
- Catholic Church
- Place:
- Italy]
- Date:
- ca. 1350
- Language:
- lat
- Physical Description:
- Extent: 1 leaf : parchment, ill. ; 543 x 383 (378 x 256) mm
- Note:
- 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. - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://catalog.mbln.org/Polaris/search/title.aspx?ctx=12.1033.0.0.5&pos=1&cn=8444707
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/s4655v48k/manifest
- Holding Institution:
