Boston Public Library, MS pb Med.153

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS3375

Shelfmark:

MS pb Med.153

Title:

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

Author:

Catholic Church

Catholic Church WIKIDATA

Place:

Italy]

Italy TGN

Date:

ca. 1350

fourteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

lat

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 1 leaf : parchment, ill. ; 463 x 343 (345 x 245) mm

Note:

Ms. leaf.
Bibliographic record created by BPL staff based on description by Dr. Lisa Fagin Davis.
Layout: Single column, seven staves. Bounding and writing lines in light plummet. Square Gregorian notation on a four-line red staff, no stems.
Script: Written in a gothic rotunda in black ink with red rubrics.
Decoration: One-staff high initials in red with blue filigree or vice versa. On the recto, a five-staff high initial [P] in white and orange on blue with white filigree highlights, tendrils of acanthus above and below in same scheme, historiated with the nativity: the Virgin reclining on a mattress, the infant in a cradle above, Joseph sleeping with his head resting on his hand below; in the...
Binding: Housed in an oversize folder.
Origin: Written in northern Italy in the first half of the fourteenth century.
Provenance: From the same set (not the same manuscript) as BPL MS pb. Med. 154; one is an antiphonal, the other a gradual, and the two leaves have somewhat different measurements. Remnants of blue mounting-corners at top. Original red Roman ink foliation, in the center of the outer margin of the verso, numbers this leaf "XXV"; s. XVII black ink arabic pagination in same location, recto "47...
Immediate source of acquisition: Purchased in 1954 from La Bibliofilia, Milan.
Call number: MS pb Med.153.
Former call number: MS 1578.
Bibliography: Netzer, N. ed., Secular/Sacred 11th-16th Century Works from the Boston Public Library and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Boston College, 2006), nr. 44. Boston Public Library Quarterly VII (1955), p.74.

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=8444710

IIIF Manifest:

https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/s4655v54q/manifest

Holding Institution:

Boston Public Library