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Metadata

DS ID:

DS3395

Shelfmark:

MS pb Med.181

Title:

Single leaf from a 14th-century antiphonal : in Latin].

Author:

Catholic Church

Catholic Church WIKIDATA

Place:

Bologna?]

Bologna TGN

Date:

ca. 1350?

fourteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

lat

Latin WIKIDATA

Material:

parchment, ill.

Parchment AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 1 leaf : parchment, ill. ; 493 x 348 (358 x 245) mm

Former Owner(s):

Libreria antiquaria Hoepli

Libreria antiquaria Hoepli WIKIDATA

Note:

Ms. leaf.
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. 16th-century foliation, upper outer corner of the recto, "6"; 17th-century arabic pagination, outer center margin both sides, "11" and "12".
Layout: 1 column, 6 staves. Bounding lines in light plummet, outermost doubled; writing lines in light plummet. Square Gregorian notation on a four-line red staff.
Decoration: Recto: 2-staff high initial in gold and colors with thin acanthus and tendrils into margins, the Presentation in the Temple: the Virgin stands at the left before a church-like archway holding the infant, who reaches towards St. Simeon at the right; Joseph stands behind the Virgin holding a dove for the offering, and a woman stands behind Simeon.
Binding: Housed in an oversize manila folder.
Origin: Written in Italy, possibly Bologna, in the mid-14th century, from the same manuscript as BPL MS pb. Med.171, Med.189 and Med.191.
Immediate source of acquisition: Acquired in 1957 from Hoepli, Milan.
Call number: MS pb Med.181.
Former call number: MS 1606.

Keyword:

Antiphonaries (Service books)

Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)

Italy

Illumination of books and manuscripts

Manuscripts, Medieval

Digital images

Gothic scripts

Massachusetts--Boston

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.mbln.org/Polaris/search/title.aspx?ctx=12.1033.0.0.5&pos=1&cn=8444730

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Holding Institution:

Boston Public Library