Boston Public Library, MS pb Med.174
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS3388
- Shelfmark:
- MS pb Med.174
- Title:
- Cutting from a 15th-century antiphonal : in Latin].
- Catholic Church
- Place:
- Netherlands]
- Date:
- ca. 1450
- Language:
- lat
- Physical Description:
- Extent: 1 item : parchment, ill. ; 98 x 96 mm set in paper sheet measuring 230 x 175 mm
- Former Owner(s):
- Maggs Bros
- Note:
- Illuminated initial "A" showing the Visitation, cut from a mid-15th century Dutch antiphonal.
Ms. fragment.
In Latin.
Bibliographic record created by BPL staff based on description by Dr. Lisa Fagin Davis.
Script: Written in a gothic bookhand in black ink with red rubrics.
Mounted to a sheet of paper with the no. 38 in a dealer's hand, probably the leaf's number in the dealer's portfolio. Same dealer's handwritten description on the upper half of the sheet reads "Rhenish school (? Dutch): first half, 15th century/ Initial "A", showing The Visitation." Housed in a wrap-around folder in an oversize manilla folder.
Origin: Written in the Netherlands in the mid-15th century.
Immediate source of acquisition: Purchased in 1957 from Maggs.
Call number: MS pb Med.174.
Former call number: MS 1599. - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://catalog.mbln.org/Polaris/search/title.aspx?ctx=12.1033.0.0.5&pos=1&cn=8444723
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/0v8389227/manifest
- Holding Institution:
