Boston Public Library, MS pb Med.165

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS3380

Shelfmark:

MS pb Med.165

Title:

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

Author:

Catholic Church

Catholic Church WIKIDATA

Place:

Italy (Venice?)]

Italy TGN

Date:

ca. 1350

fourteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

lat

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 1 item : parchment, ill. ; 115 x 115 mm

Former Owner(s):

Libreria antiquaria Hoepli

Libreria antiquaria Hoepli WIKIDATA

Note:

Ms. fragment.
Bibliographic record created by BPL staff based on description by Dr. Lisa Fagin Davis.
Script: Written in a Gothic rotunda in black ink. Only a few letters visible on dorse. Square Gregorian notation on a four-line red staff.
Binding: Housed in an oversize folder.
Origin: Produced in Italy in the mid-fourteenth century. From the same manuscript as BPL MS pb. Med. 166. The [E] could be the incipit of the Matins Antiphon "Ego sum vitis" or the Mass Introit "Exclamaverunt ad te," among other possible chants; with only a few letters visible on the dorse, it is therefore impossible to determine from this cutting if this initial was cut from an Office or a...
Immediate source of acquisition: Purchased in 1953 from Hoepli.
Call number: MS pb Med.165.
Former call number: MS 1590.
Bibliography: Boston Public Library Quarterly VII (1955), p.75.

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=8444715

IIIF Manifest:

https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/s4655v72n/manifest

Holding Institution:

Boston Public Library