Boston Public Library, MS pb Med.189
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS3403
- Shelfmark:
- MS pb Med.189
- Title:
- Single leaf from a 14th-century antiphonal : in Latin].
- Catholic Church
- Place:
- Italy (Bologna?)]
- Date:
- between1300 and 1399
- Language:
- lat
- Physical Description:
- Extent: 1 leaf : parchment, ill. ; 500 x 362 (355 x 235) mm
- Former Owner(s):
- Renzo Rizzi libri antichi (Firm)
- Note:
- 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. - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://catalog.mbln.org/Polaris/search/title.aspx?ctx=12.1033.0.0.5&pos=1&cn=8444738
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/3r076q883/manifest
- Holding Institution:
