Boston Public Library, MS pb Med.176

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS3390

Shelfmark:

MS pb Med.176

Title:

Cutting from a 15th-century gradual : in Latin].

Author:

Catholic Church

Catholic Church WIKIDATA

Place:

Italy]

Italy TGN

Date:

ca. 1450

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

lat

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 1 item : parchment, ill. ; 225 x 200 mm

Former Owner(s):

Libreria antiquaria Hoepli

Libreria antiquaria Hoepli WIKIDATA

Note:

Ms. fragment.
Bibliographic record created by BPL staff based on description by Dr. Lisa Fagin Davis.
Layout: Two staves extant on verso. Square Gregorian notation on a four-line red staff.
Script: Written in a Gothic rotunda in black ink with red rubrics.
Decoration: Recto: two-staff high historiated floriate initial in colors on gold, with leafy border in colors with gold balls, The Slaughter of the Innocents: Two women hold their infants, one of whom is threatened by a knife-wielding servant observed by enthroned Herod at the right; several slaughtered, swaddled infants on the ground. Verso: 1/2-staff high initial in green filled with red and...
Binding: Housed in an oversize manilla folder.
Origin: Written in Italy in the mid-fifteenth century.
Immediate source of acquisition: Acquired in 1957 from Hoepli, Milan.
Call number: MS pb Med.176.
Former call number: MS 1601.

Keyword:

Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)

Illumination of books and manuscripts

Manuscripts, Medieval

Digital images

Graduals (Service books)

Gothic scripts

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.mbln.org/Polaris/search/title.aspx?ctx=12.1033.0.0.5&pos=1&cn=8444725

IIIF Manifest:

https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/s4655v90k/manifest

Holding Institution:

Boston Public Library