Ms. fragment. Bibliographic record created by BPL staff based on description by Dr. Lisa Fagin Davis. Layout: Single column, five staves. Bounding and writing lines in light brown ink, bounding lines doubled and full-length. 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 acanthus and gold balls in margin: Judah Maccabee in armor on horseback with raised sword. Binding: Housed in an oversize manilla folder. Origin: Written in Italy, possibly Ferrara, in the early fifteenth century. Immediate source of acquisition: Acquired in 1957 from Hoepli, Milan. Call number: MS pb Med.177. Former call number: MS 1602.
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