Boston Public Library, MS pb Med.177

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS3391

Shelfmark:

MS pb Med.177

Title:

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

Author:

Catholic Church

Catholic Church WIKIDATA

Place:

Italy]

Italy TGN

Date:

between ca. 1400 and 1425

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

lat

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 1 item : parchment, ill. ; 517 x 230 (410 x approx. 360 (half-width extant)) 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: 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.

Keyword:

Antiphonaries (Service books)

Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)

Illumination of books and manuscripts

Manuscripts, Medieval

Digital images

Gothic scripts

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.mbln.org/Polaris/search/title.aspx?ctx=12.1033.0.0.5&pos=1&cn=8444726

IIIF Manifest:

https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/5q47t068s/manifest

Holding Institution:

Boston Public Library