Boston Public Library, MS pb Med.182

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS3396

Shelfmark:

MS pb Med.182

Title:

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

Author:

Catholic Church

Catholic Church WIKIDATA

Place:

Florence

Florence TGN

Date:

ca. 1350

fourteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

lat

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 1 leaf : parchment, ill. ; 517 x 387 (367 x 255) 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.
Layout: 1 column, 6 staves. Bounding and writing lines in blind, outer bounding line doubled. Square Gregorian notation on a four-line red staff.
Decoration: Verso: two-staff high initial in colors (the palette includes a distinctive bright orange and deep blue) with minimal acanthus into margins, The Conversion of St. Paul: Saul/Paul fallen from his horse, a vision of Christ in the heavens above pointing down at him.
Binding: Housed in an oversize manila folder.
Origin: Written in Italy, possibly Florence, in the mid-14th-century.
Immediate source of acquisition: Acquired in 1957 from Hoepli, Milan.
Call number: MS pb Med.182.
Former call number: BPL MS 1607.

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=8444731

IIIF Manifest:

https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/3r076q58c/manifest

Holding Institution:

Boston Public Library