Boston Public Library, MS pb Med.178
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS3392
- Shelfmark:
- MS pb Med.178
- Title:
- Single leaf from a 13th-century antiphonal : in Latin].
- Catholic Church
- Artist:
- Maestro di Gerona, active approximately 1260-approximately 1290
- Place:
- Bologna]
- Date:
- ca. 1275
- Language:
- lat
- Physical Description:
- Extent: 1 leaf : parchment, ill. ; 515 x 358 (377 x 263) mm
- Former Owner(s):
- Maggs Bros
- Note:
- Ms. Leaf.
Bibliographic record created by BPL staff based on description by Dr. Lisa Fagin Davis and by Patricia DeLeeuw's description of MS pb Med.170, which comes from the same manuscript, in the Beyond Words catalog (see bibliography)
Script: Written in an early Gothic rotunda in black ink with red rubrics.
Layout: 1 column, 7 staves. Bounding and writing lines in light plummet, bounding lines full-length. Square Gregorian notation on a four-line red staff.
Decoration: Recto: 2-staff high historiated floriate initial in gold and colors: the Virgin Mary among a group of unnimbed men, gazing upwards at the feet of Jesus ascendent.
Binding: Housed in an oversize manilla folder.
Origin: Written in Bologna ca. 1275. DeLeeuw notes attribution of the initial on another leaf from this manuscript (MS pb Med.170) to the circle of the Master of the Bible of Gerona.
Immediate source of acquisition: Acquired in 1957 from Maggs.
Call number: MS pb Med.178.
Former call number: MS 1603.
For published description of the related leaf (MS pb Med.170), see: Jeffrey Hamburger, et al., eds. Beyond Words: Illuminated Manuscripts in Boston Collections. (Chestnut Hill: McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, 2016), no. 147. - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://catalog.mbln.org/Polaris/search/title.aspx?ctx=12.1033.0.0.5&pos=1&cn=8444727
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/3r076q40x/manifest
- Holding Institution:
