Boston Public Library, MS pb Med.180

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS3394

Shelfmark:

MS pb Med.180

Title:

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

Author:

Catholic Church

Catholic Church WIKIDATA

Place:

Italy]

Italy TGN

Date:

between 1450 and 1499

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

lat

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 1 leaf : parchment, ill. ; 495 x 324 (370 x 225) mm

Former Owner(s):

Maggs Bros

Maggs Bros Ltd WIKIDATA

Note:

Ms. leaf.
In Latin.
Bibliographic record created by BPL staff based on description by Dr. Lisa Fagin Davis.
Script: Written in a gothic rotunda in black ink with red rubrics.
Layout: 1 column, 5 staves. Bounding and writing lines in light plummet, vertical bounding lines full-length. Square Gregorian notation on a four-line red staff.
Decoration: Recto: 1-staff high blue initial with red and green filigree; verso: 2-staff high historiated floriate initial in colors on gold with ơ-border consisting of a linear column in colors with acanthus and gold balls, with floral sprays into lower and upper margins: St. Paul holding a sword and a stack of epistles, the outermost reading "Ad romanos". The historiated initial has been cut...
Binding: Housed in an oversize manila folder.
Origin: Written in northern Italy in the second half of the 15th-century.
Immediate source of acquisition: Acquired in 1957 from Maggs.
Call number: MS pb Med.180.
Former call number: BPL MS 1605.

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=8444729

IIIF Manifest:

https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/3r076q31z/manifest

Holding Institution:

Boston Public Library