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Metadata

DS ID:

DS3378

Shelfmark:

MS pb Med.156

Title:

Single leaf from a 14th-century gradual; in Latin

Gradual

Author:

Catholic Church

Catholic Church WIKIDATA

Place:

Germany

Germany TGN

Date:

ca. 1350

fourteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

lat

Latin WIKIDATA

Material:

parchment, ill.

Parchment AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 1 leaf : parchment, ill. ; 510 x 345 (376 x 246) mm

Former Owner(s):

Maggs Bros

Maggs Bros Ltd WIKIDATA

Note:

Ms. leaf.
Bibliographic record created by BPL staff based on description by Dr. Lisa Fagin Davis.
Layout: Single column, nine staves. staves. Bounding and writing lines in red, bounding and upper, middle and lower writing lines full-length. Square Gregorian notation on a four-line red staff, no stems, measure lines added later in black or red.
Script: Written in a Gothic rotunda in black ink with red rubrics.
Decoration: Mid-line major chants begin with slightly enlarged initial in blue with red penwork or vice versa; versicles begin with slightly enlarged initials in black with red infill. On the recto, a two-staff high angular initial [S] in green within a dark red and salmon border, historiated in two compartments: in the upper, a bishop at the left (the High Priest?) and a hooded man (Joachim...
Binding: Housed in an oversize manilla folder.
Origin: Written in Germany in the first half of the fourteenth century.
Immediate source of acquisition: Purchased in 1955 from Maggs.
Call number: MS pb Med.156.
Former call number: MS 1581.

Keyword:

Digital images

Gothic scripts

Manuscripts, Medieval

Germany

Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)

Graduals (Service books)

illuminations (paintings)

Massachusetts--Boston

Institutional Record:

https://bpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S75C8444713

IIIF Manifest:

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Holding Institution:

Boston Public Library