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Metadata

DS ID:

DS3384

Shelfmark:

MS pb Med.169

Title:

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

Antiphonary

Author:

Catholic Church

Catholic Church WIKIDATA

Place:

Italy

Italy 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. ; 537 x 385 (375 x 247) mm

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.
Script: Written in a Gothic rotunda in black ink. S. XVII brown ink arabic foliation, "163", lower right corner recto.
Decoration: On the recto, a two-staff high initial [M] in colors with minimal acanthus scrolling into margins, historiated with the Annunciation: the Angel Gabriel kneeling at left, the Virgin seated at the right, a fortified city in the background.
Binding: Housed in an oversize manilla folder.
Origin: Written in Italy in the mid-fourteenth century.
Immediate source of acquisition: Purchased in 1954 from La Bibliofilia, Milan.
Call number: MS pb Med.169.
Former call number: MS 1594.
Bibliography: Boston Public Library Quarterly VII (1955), p.74.

Keyword:

Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)

Italy

Digital images

Gothic scripts

Manuscripts, Medieval

Antiphonaries (Service books)

illuminations (paintings)

Massachusetts--Boston

Institutional Record:

https://bpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S75C8444719

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Holding Institution:

Boston Public Library