Boston Public Library, MS pb Med.173
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS3387
- Shelfmark:
- MS pb Med.173
- Title:
- Cutting from a 15th-century antiphonal : in Latin].
- Catholic Church
- Place:
- Italy]
- Date:
- between ca. 1400 and 1450
- Language:
- lat
- Physical Description:
- Extent: 1 item : parchment, ill. ; 212 x 131 mm
- Former Owner(s):
- Libreria antiquaria Hoepli
- 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:
- Institutional Record:
- https://catalog.mbln.org/Polaris/search/title.aspx?ctx=12.1033.0.0.5&pos=1&cn=8444722
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/s4655v84f/manifest
- Holding Institution:
