Boston Public Library, MS pb Med.170

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS3385

Shelfmark:

MS pb Med.170

Title:

Single leaf from a 13th-century gradual : in Latin].

Author:

Catholic Church

Catholic Church WIKIDATA

Artist:

Maestro di Gerona, active approximately 1260-approximately 1290

Maestro di Gerona WIKIDATA

Place:

Bologna]

Bologna TGN

Date:

ca. 1275

thirteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

lat

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 1 leaf : parchment, ill. ; 518 x 361 (380 x 258) mm

Note:

Ms. leaf.
Bibliographic record created by BPL staff based on description by Dr. Lisa Fagin Davis and by Patricia DeLeeuw's entry in the Beyond Words catalog (see bibliography)
Date and location from the Beyond Words catalog.
Layout: One column, seven staves. Bounding and writing lines in blind. Square Gregorian notation on a four-line red staff, some stems.
Script: Written in a Gothic rotunda in black ink with red rubrics.
Decoration: On the recto, a two-staff high floriate initial [E] on blue with white filigree, historiated with the Adoration of the Magi: the Virgin sits at the left, the Christ-child standing on her lap, Joseph behind; the three Magi kneel at the right, the frontmost presenting his gift. Original Roman foliation, upper margin verso, in alternating red and blue epigraphic capitals, "xxvi...
Binding: Housed in an oversized folder.
Origin: Written in Bologna ca. 1275. DeLeeuw notes attribution of the initial to the circle of the Master of the Bible of Gerona. From the same manuscript as BPL pb Med.178.
Immediate source of acquisition: Purchased by the BPL from La Bibliofilia, Milan, in 1954.
Former call number: BPL MS 1595.
Call number: MS pb Med.170.
For published descriptions, see: More Books/BPL Quarterly VII (1955), p. 75; Netzer, N. ed., Secular/Sacred 11th-16th Century Works from the Boston Public Library and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Boston College, 2006), no. 48; Jeffrey Hamburger, et al., eds. Beyond Words: Illuminated Manuscripts in Boston Collections. (Chestnut Hill: McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, 2016), no. 147.

Keyword:

Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)

Illumination of books and manuscripts

Manuscripts, Medieval

Digital images

Graduals (Service books)

Gothic scripts

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.mbln.org/Polaris/search/title.aspx?ctx=12.1033.0.0.5&pos=1&cn=8444720

IIIF Manifest:

https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/dz010v913/manifest

Holding Institution:

Boston Public Library