Ms. leaf. Easter, Matins. Title devised by cataloger. 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 light plummet, outer bounding line doubled. Square Gregorian notation on a four-line red staff. Decoration: Verso: 2-staff high historiated initial in gold and colors with thin acanthus and tendrils into margins, The Resurrection: an Angel sits atop the open empty sepulchre, gesturing at the shroud crumpled in a corner, soldiers sleeping in the foreground and the three Marys approaching from the left. Binding: Tipped using old tape into a heavy matte with mylar window cutout, in an oversize manila folder. Origin: Written in Italy, possibly Bologna, in the mid-fourteenth century, from the same manuscript as BPL pb. Med. 171, 181 and 191. Provenance: 16th-century foliation upper outer corner of the recto, "21"; 17th-century arabic pagination, outer center both sides, as "41" and "42". Immediate source of acquisition: Acquired in 1958 from Renzo Rizzi, Milan. Call number: MS pb Med.189. Former call number: MS 1615.
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