Boston Public Library, MS pb Med.190

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS3404

Shelfmark:

MS pb Med.190

Title:

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

Author:

Catholic Church

Catholic Church WIKIDATA

Place:

Italy]

Italy TGN

Date:

between 1400 and 1450

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

lat

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 1 leaf : parchment, ill. ; 520 x 375 (403 x 250) mm

Former Owner(s):

Leo S. Olschki (Firm)

Leo S. Olschki Editore WIKIDATA

Note:

Ms. leaf.
Second and Third Sunday after Epiphany, Mass.
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, 8 staves. Bounding and writing lines in light plummet. Square Gregorian notation on a four-line red staff.
Decoration: Verso: two-staff high historiated floriate initial in gold and colors, an angel at prayer.
Binding: Housed in an oversize folder.
Origin: Written in Italy, possibly Florence, in the first half of the 15th century.
Provenance: Original red Roman foliation, upper center verso, "xliiii"; remnants of blue mounting tape at corners.
Immediate source of acquisition: Acquired in 1957 from Olschki, Florence.
Call number: MS pb Med.190.
Former call number: MS 1616.

Keyword:

Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)

Illumination of books and manuscripts

Manuscripts, Medieval

Digital images

Graduals (Service books)

Gothic scripts

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.mbln.org/Polaris/search/title.aspx?ctx=12.1033.0.0.5&pos=1&cn=8444739

IIIF Manifest:

https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/3r076q91d/manifest

Holding Institution:

Boston Public Library