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Metadata

DS ID:

DS3386

Shelfmark:

MS pb Med.171

Title:

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

Antiphonary

Author:

Catholic Church

Catholic Church WIKIDATA

Place:

Italy

Italy TGN

Date:

between ca. 1350 and 1399

fourteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

lat

Latin WIKIDATA

Material:

parchment, ill.

Parchment AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 1 leaf : parchment, ill. ; 502 x 352 (351 x 240) mm

Former Owner(s):

Leo S. Olschki (Firm)

Leo S. Olschki Editore WIKIDATA

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:

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/S75C8444721

IIIF Manifest:

https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/s4655v81m/manifest

Holding Institution:

Boston Public Library