Boston Public Library, MS pb Med.154

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS3376

Shelfmark:

MS pb Med.154

Title:

Single leaf from a 14th-century gradual : 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. ; 507 x 361 (365 x 265) 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 verso, a two-staff high initial [L] in pale blue and pale salmon on blue with white filigree highlighting, historiated with the Nativity: the Virgin reclines on a mattress, Joseph sleeps with his head resting on his hand behind and to the left, the Christ-child lies swaddles in a cradle in the center...
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.153; 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 "XXVII"; the 17th-century black ink arabic pagination found on BPL MS pb...
Immediate source of acquisition: Purchased in 1954 from La Bibliofilia, Milan.
Call number: MS pb Med.154.
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. 45. Boston Public Library Quarterly VII (1955), p.74.

Keyword:

Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)

Illumination of books and manuscripts

Manuscripts, Medieval

Digital images

Graduals (Service books)

Gothic scripts

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.mbln.org/Polaris/search/title.aspx?ctx=12.1033.0.0.5&pos=1&cn=8444711

IIIF Manifest:

https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/s4655v57j/manifest

Holding Institution:

Boston Public Library