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Metadata

DS ID:

DS3387

Shelfmark:

MS pb Med.173

Title:

Cutting from a 15th-century antiphonal; in Latin

Antiphonary

Author:

Catholic Church

Catholic Church WIKIDATA

Place:

Italy

Italy TGN

Date:

between ca. 1400 and 1450

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

lat

Latin WIKIDATA

Material:

parchment, ill.

Parchment AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 1 item : parchment, ill. ; 212 x 131 mm

Former Owner(s):

Hoepli (Firm : Milan, Italy)

Hoepli WIKIDATA

Note:

Ms. fragment.
Bibliographic record created by BPL staff based on description by Dr. Lisa Fagin Davis.
Layout: 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 with red rubrics.
Decoration: A two-staff high floriate initial [V] (for "Vidi speciosam sicut," the first responsory of Matins) in shades of rose on gold leaf with acanthus scrolling slightly into margin, historiated with the Death of the Virgin: the Virgin lies on her deathbed, surrounded by the apostles, St. Paul in the center, St. Peter (with key) at the right.
Binding: Housed in an oversize manilla folder.
Origin: Produced in Italy in the early fifteenth century.
Immediate source of acquisition: Purchased in 1954 from Hoepli.
Call number: MS pb Med.173.
Former call number: MS 1598.
Bibliography: 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. 49.

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/S75C8444722

IIIF Manifest:

https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/s4655v84f/manifest

Holding Institution:

Boston Public Library