Boston Public Library, MS pb Med.171
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS3386
- Shelfmark:
- MS pb Med.171
- Title:
- Single leaf from a 14th-century antiphonal : in Latin].
- Catholic Church
- Place:
- Italy]
- Date:
- between ca. 1350 and 1399
- Language:
- lat
- Physical Description:
- Extent: 1 leaf : parchment, ill. ; 502 x 352 (351 x 240) mm
- Former Owner(s):
- Leo S. Olschki (Firm)
- 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 blind. Square Gregorian notation on a four-line red staff, measures added in red.
Script: Written in a Gothic rotunda in black ink with red rubrics. Early arabic foliation, "2", upper outer margin recto; slightly later arabic pagination in outer margins, "3" and "4" as expected, since this was the second leaf of the manuscript.
Decoration: On the verso, a two-staff high foliate initial [A] with tendrils and with gold balls along outer margin and scrolling acanthus into lower margin, historiated in two registers: above, Christ and two angels; below, two nimbed apostles gazing upwards holding blank banderoles.
Binding: Housed in an oversize manilla folder.
Origin: Written in Italy in the second half of the fourteenth century.
Immediate source of acquisition: Purchased in 1954 from Olschki.
Call number: MS pb Med.171.
Former call number: MS 1596.
Bibliography: Boston Public Library Quarterly VII (1955), p.75. - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://catalog.mbln.org/Polaris/search/title.aspx?ctx=12.1033.0.0.5&pos=1&cn=8444721
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/s4655v81m/manifest
- Holding Institution:
