Boston Public Library, MS pb Med.186

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS3400

Shelfmark:

MS pb Med.186

Title:

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

Author:

Catholic Church

Catholic Church WIKIDATA

Place:

Belgium]

Belgium TGN

Date:

between 1450 and 1499

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

lat

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 1 leaf : parchment, ill. ; 446 x 304 (315 x 203) mm

Former Owner(s):

Sandbergs Bokhandel, Stockholm

Sandbergs Bokhandel 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, 7 staves. No visible ruling. Square Gregorian notation on a five-line red staff.
Decoration: On the verso, a four-staff high golden floriate initial on blue with gold foliate highlights, historiated with the Betrayal: Christ in a crowd of Roman soldiers, Judas embracing him; at the left, Peter holds a sword above the prone Malchus. Full border in similar color scheme with trompe-l'oeuil effects, a suderium on a golden shield in the center of the upper, right and left...
Binding: Housed in an oversize manila folder.
Origin: Written in Flanders in the late 15th century.
Immediate source of acquisition: Acquired in 1957 from Sandbergs Bokhandel, Stockholm, their label in the upper margin of the recto.
Call number: MS pb Med.186.
Former call number: BPL MS 1612.

Keyword:

Illumination of books and manuscripts

Digital images

Graduals (Service books)

Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)

Gothic scripts

Manuscripts, Medieval

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.mbln.org/Polaris/search/title.aspx?ctx=12.1033.0.0.5&pos=1&cn=8444735

IIIF Manifest:

https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/3r076q769/manifest

Holding Institution:

Boston Public Library