Boston Public Library, MS pb Med.155
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS3377
- Shelfmark:
- MS pb Med.155
- Title:
- Single leaf from a 14th-century gradual : in Latin].
- Catholic Church
- Place:
- Italy]
- Date:
- between ca. 1350 and 1399
- Language:
- lat
- Physical Description:
- Extent: 1 leaf : parchment, ill. ; 543 x 381 (410 x 250) mm
- Former Owner(s):
- Leo S. Olschki (Firm)
- Note:
- Ms. leaf.
Bibliographic record created by BPL staff based on description by Dr. Lisa Fagin Davis.
Layout: Single column, six 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 two-staff initial [C] in blue on gold with a thick red and blue frame, acanthus with gold balls scrolling to upper right and lower left corner, including a dragon in the outer border, the initial historiated with the Last Supper: Christ and the twelve apostles seated at a round table, Christ at the...
Binding: Housed in an oversize folder.
Origin: Written in northern Italy in the second half of the fourteenth century.
Provenance: Residue of blue mounting tape at corners and outer margin of recto. Original foliation in red roman numerals in the center of the outer margin of the verso, "CXXVI".
Immediate source of acquisition: Purchased in 1954 from Olschki.
Call number: MS pb Med.155.
Former call number: MS 1580.
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=8444712
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/s4655v60v/manifest
- Holding Institution:
