Boston Public Library, MS pb Med.156
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS3378
- Shelfmark:
- MS pb Med.156
- Title:
- Single leaf from a 14th-century gradual : in Latin].
- Catholic Church
- Place:
- Germany]
- Date:
- ca. 1350
- Language:
- lat
- Physical Description:
- Extent: 1 leaf : parchment, ill. ; 510 x 345 (376 x 246) mm
- Former Owner(s):
- Maggs Bros
- 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:
- Institutional Record:
- https://catalog.mbln.org/Polaris/search/title.aspx?ctx=12.1033.0.0.5&pos=1&cn=8444713
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/5q47t0713/manifest
- Holding Institution:
