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Metadata

DS ID:

DS3403

Shelfmark:

MS pb Med.189

Title:

Single leaf from a 14th-century antiphonal; in Latin

Antiphonary

Author:

Catholic Church

Catholic Church WIKIDATA

Place:

Italy (Bologna?)

Italy TGN

Bologna TGN

Date:

between1300 and 1399

fourteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

lat

Latin WIKIDATA

Material:

parchment, ill.

Parchment AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 1 leaf : parchment, ill. ; 500 x 362 (355 x 235) mm

Former Owner(s):

Renzo Rizzi libri antichi (Firm)

Renzo Rizzi libri antichi WIKIDATA

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:

Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)

Italy

Digital images

Gothic scripts

Manuscripts, Medieval

Antiphonaries (Service books)

illuminations (paintings)

Massachusetts--Boston

Institutional Record:

https://bpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S75C8444738

IIIF Manifest:

https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/3r076q883/manifest

Holding Institution:

Boston Public Library